Hello and welcome to Form Now. I am Taylor Kemp, the form platform manager here at the Augustin Institute.

And with me today is Dr. Michael Barber, who is a professor here at the Augustin Institute

Graduate School for Sacred Scripture. I just want to take a quick second to thank from the

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So thank you again. Well, today, everybody, we are starting a five-part series on the luminous

mysteries of the rosary, specifically in relation to scripture. The luminous mysteries were presented by St. John Paul II to the church in 2002

in a document that you can very easily look up.

And the luminous mysteries are, they're beautiful mysteries.

They take you from, they're through the public ministry of Jesus,

from the baptism all the way to the Last Supper.

And they really are just, they're wonderful mysteries, they're mysteries of light, and so today we're going to jump into the baptism of the Lord, the first mystery.

Michael, where I wanted to start, and maybe we can take a look at the text, but the first question

that I wanted to start with as someone who was a convert, and I'm coming into the faith at 25,

and I remember learning about baptism. And the first thing you learn about baptism is that it takes

away sin. And then close behind or close before that is you learn that Jesus was without sin.

And I remember, as so many have before, well then why was Jesus baptized? I think this is just a wonderful place to start that Jesus' public ministry started with

baptism.

So I wanted to begin there because that was the first question I ever had.

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