The Baptism of our Lord

Every year on the Sunday following The Feast of the Epiphany,—the arrival of the Magi, and the revelation of Jesus to the gentiles, January 6—we commemorate and contemplate the baptism of our Lord by his cousin John in the Jordan River…because it helps frame so vividly for us the meaning of God’s incarnation.

In fact, for Christians in the early centuries of the church, as well as for those of us today who embrace the same faith, neither Jesus’ baptism nor our own makes much sense if not considered in light of the incarnation.