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January 26, 2025 at 12:52 am #207752Michaela
Fr. Foeckler’s Lecture Note Jan 14, 2025
Jan 12 Sunday’s Gospel
Luke 3:15-16, 21-22
The people were filled with expectation,
and all were asking in their hearts
whether John might be the Christ.
John answered them all, saying,
“I am baptizing you with water,
but one mightier than I is coming.
I am not worthy to loosen the thongs of his sandals.
He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.”After all the people had been baptized
and Jesus also had been baptized and was praying,
heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended upon him
in bodily form like a dove.
And a voice came from heaven,
“You are my beloved Son;
with you I am well pleased.”The Feast of the Baptism culminates of the Christmas season, inauguration the ordinary season, Jesus’s public ministration. Ordinary time doesn’t mean it’s boring. It is ordinary, because it is in order.
Jesus goes into the desert for 40 days right after baptism.
12th of January is a special day for Miles Jesus. 4 men in 1964 made a consecration to create Miles Jesus.
When Jesus left home and came to the Southwest of Jericho, to the Jordan River, St. John was baptizing people. In some ways, the baptism was just like the baptism we know, but some parts of it were different. It is a sacramental blessing, not sacrament itself. It if for repentance. The primary reason for the forgiving they got here is not because of the water, but it symbolize by washing the outside, purifying inside to accept God. There are several pool in Jerusalem. Washing is part of the ritual for purification. Washing is for the spiritual purification. In baptism, you have to follow certain rules, like it needs to be performed by a priest, with a correct rite, with the correct words, etc. The “I” when saying “I baptize you in the name of the Father..”, means not the priest who’s performing it, but Jesus himself. The sacrament itself doesn’t depend on the who’s giving the baptism, or the person who’s receiving it. It depends wholly on the Lord. Whoever is baptizing, all the personal sins are gone. Baptism has purifying them with all the sins. Baptism saves a person. But when we baptize a baby, grace is given as a gift. Free gift of salvation is given by God. Faith, hope, charity, and other moral virtues, now we just all have to practice them.
In Christmas, we celebrate the incarnation of God. He was 9 months in the womb, and to be grown up by His parents like all others except for sin. We celebrate Jesus’ 30 years of secret life in the Christmas season. He had to work, study, and do all other human things during that time. We are celebrating that God became a man like us and dwelt among us.
He goes for Jordan, waiting in line for the baptism. John protested when Jesus is there.
“I am not worthy to loosen the thongs of his sandals. He will baptize you with the holy Spirit and fire.”
After the baptism, Jesus went to the desert, and made a penance.
St. Paul say in the letter to the Philippians.
“He left HIs divinity behind, humbled Himself, taking the form of a slave, obedient on to death.”
Because of His sacrifice on the cross, we all got saved.
When Jesus baptized, a voice came from heaven said.
“You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”
God so loved the world, He sent down to His only Son, so we can be saved.
Jan 9th 1st reading
Reading I
1 John 4:19–5:4
Beloved, we love God because
he first loved us.
If anyone says, “I love God,”
but hates his brother, he is a liar;
for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen
cannot love God whom he has not seen.
This is the commandment we have from him:
Whoever loves God must also love his brother.Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten by God,
and everyone who loves the Father
loves also the one begotten by him.
In this way we know that we love the children of God
when we love God and obey his commandments.
For the love of God is this,
that we keep his commandments.
And his commandments are not burdensome,
for whoever is begotten by God conquers the world.
And the victory that conquers the world is our faith.Three steps of repentance
1.Contrition or sorrow for sin
2.Repent: The first step is repentance: to recognize that we are lost without God, and we are doomed to an eternal death apart from him because we lack his grace, which makes us alive in him. We must turn away from anything that would lead us away from God and then turn to God in faith.
3. Imitate God -Action.
“Ardent love” : Ardent means enthusiastic, passionate but also means burning, glowing
Jesus, meek and humble of heart, teach me to be like you.
Jesus humbled Himself.
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