The Baptism of Our Lord – A
Today we celebrate the beautiful solemnity of the Baptism of our Lord. Such an amazing and wondrous event in the life of our Lord, and in the life of the people of God, whom He came to redeem and save. A question immediately arises when we read the narrative of how Jesus approached John, who was baptizing, and asked to be baptized by him. When Jesus approached John the Baptist to be baptized, what would John’s perception of Jesus have been? Would he have known he was in the presence of divinity itself, or was he not there yet? Would he have known He was the Son of God, or was this something gradually revealed to him after the baptism?