Dear Parishioners,
This weekend, we celebrate the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, which is also the official end of the Christmas season. This feast reminds us that Jesus comes to do the will of His Father and identifies Himself with sinful humanity by taking the baptism of repentance (though He was sinless), and in doing so transforms it into the Sacrament of Baptism that by His death and Resurrection regenerates us, and claims us for God our heavenly Father. This week is also National Vocations Awareness Week (just a note that in 2014 it will be moved to November). In our Baptism, God calls us, and we are opened up to His plan for our lives. God calls all of us. Some He calls to specific Church Vocations such as Holy Orders or Religious Life, while many are called to Marriage. Note that Marriage is a vocation - just as holy and as important as priesthood, deaconate, or religious life. How? As we will hear next week in the Gospel, when a couple invites Jesus into their lives, He takes the ordinary and transforms it into the very best! Couples unite themselves not just because they love each other, but because they want to co-create a family, and to raise any children that come from their union in the faith of Christ Jesus.
Next weekend, I will be away for a TEC, along with a few others from our AFC. Please keep them in prayer. For anyone who has not made a TEC and is interested, there is still time to register - contact me.
In Christ,
Fr. Todd
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