Liturgically Inspired Recipes- The Baptism of our Lord!
I will take my last chance to wish all of you a Merry Christmas as the Christmas season wraps up with the Feast of Jesus's Baptism! All throughout this season, we have been celebrating that God sent his Son Jesus Christ down to Earth to lead us all to holiness so that through Him, we may gain eternal life in Heaven! Jesus's baptism is just one of the many ways he taught us through example how to give of yourself to the Lord and allow for His will to be carried out. In Baptism, we profess our faith in the Lord and promise to carry out His will and do what he is calling us to do, and become the children of God. It was the same deal for Jesus. When Jesus approached John the Baptist to be baptized, John was at first hesitant to do so, acknowledging that he was not the Word made flesh and needed to be baptized by the one mightier than him who was the Word made flesh, and therefore felt worthy to baptize Him instead. Jesus told John to "Allow it now", and he complied. It wa