This is the movement of the Holy Family, leading people to Jesus through friendship, good conversation, and the Rosary.

Welcome to our Rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Let's call to mind all those that we've promised to pray for, especially for the healing of Margo and her traumatic brain injury and for the healing of Olivia Kenile.

We're meditating on the way we encounter the saving work of Jesus in the Mass and the

sacraments. Today, baptism. Yesterday, we reflected on the fact that the liturgy and the sacraments make

the saving events from the life of Jesus present so that what took place in him can take place in us.

Two events from the life of Jesus are made present in our own baptism.

The baptism of Jesus at the Jordan River and his suffering death and resurrection.

Therefore, we need to understand, if we're going to understand our baptism, we need to

understand the baptism of Jesus. Now, John the Baptist was baptizing people in the Jordan River.

The act of descending into the waters implied a confession of guilt,

a plea for forgiveness, and a resolution to change one's life. But then something new happened.

Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John to be baptized by him.

And the real novelty is that He, Jesus, wants to be baptized,

that he blends into the gray mass of sinners waiting on the banks of the Jordan.

And we just heard that they were confessing their sins.

The baptism itself was a confession of sin, an attempt to put off the old failed life and put on a

new one. Is this something that Jesus could do? And John wanted to prevent him. Behold, you are the

Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

I need to be baptized by you.

And do you come to me?

Our Father who art in heaven, hallow it be your name.

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