.png)
Jan 08
|22:20
Last Updated on Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:48
On Friday we celebrated the feast of Theophany which commemorates the Lord was
baptised in the River Jourdan. On Thursday we prepared to celebrate the feast of Theophany with Royal Hours, vespers and liturgy followed by the great blessing of the waters.
"Baptism is the symbol of death and resurrection; Christ came to the earth in order to die and be raised. Baptism is a symbol of repentance of sin and its forgiveness; Christ came as the
Lamb of God who takes upon Himself the sin of the world in order to take it away. Baptism is a symbol of sanctification; Christ has come to sanctify the whole of creation. Baptism is a symbol, finally, of radical renewal. When one is baptized the old is over and the new has come. And Christ has appeared on earth to bring all things to an end, and to make all things new. The act of baptism, therefore, contains in symbol the entire mystery of Christ, the whole purpose of his coming." (The Winter Pascha, p.142)