Starting Fresh: The Symbolism of Jesus' Baptism
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
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🗓️ 7 January 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Is there an area of your life that you feel needs a new beginning? Dr. Sri explains the significance of the upcoming feast of the Baptism of Jesus and shares practical takeaways as we begin to walk with Jesus in the new liturgical year.
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The Baptism of the Lord teaches us that Jesus comes to give us new beginnings.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edwards Sari and welcome to all things Catholic, where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:13.7 | Happy New Year and welcome to the first show of 2025. You know, in this month of January, |
| 0:18.3 | so many people are thinking about the new year and New Year's resolutions. |
| 0:22.8 | And I love that idea, but I want to look at this from a spiritual perspective because the church actually gives us something so much more exciting than just the beginning of a new calendar year. |
| 0:32.8 | This upcoming Sunday in the liturgy, the church gives us something special to help us refocus, to redirect as we |
| 0:39.9 | begin a new start in our spiritual lives. And many people miss out on this, but I want to start by |
| 0:45.6 | asking you a personal question here. I want to ask you, is there an area of your life that you |
| 0:50.5 | feel needs a new beginning? Maybe something's just a little bit off in your life. You know, |
| 0:55.0 | an area you could be a little bit better. You want to grow in this area of your life. I know Beth and I |
| 0:59.8 | feel like this all the time. Maybe, for example, in our marriage, we need a reset in our marriage sometimes. |
| 1:05.4 | Things could be going really well for a few weeks, a few months. and then we start getting out of sync. Things aren't running as smoothly in our marriage. |
| 1:12.5 | We're not as close as we used to be, and we need a little bit of a reset. |
| 1:16.3 | Or maybe that could be with one of our kids, or maybe just our family dynamic is a little bit |
| 1:20.8 | off and we need to redirect things. |
| 1:22.3 | So I want you to think about that. |
| 1:23.8 | In your marriage, in your family life, in your friendships, in your community, is there an area that needs a little bit of a fresh start? Or how about your spiritual life? |
| 1:32.4 | Maybe there's some good habits you used to have in place, practices to help you grow in your |
| 1:37.9 | faith, to grow in your spiritual life. And you know, you've fallen away from those. You haven't |
| 1:43.2 | been as consistent. Is there an area in your spiritual life, God is know you've fallen away from those. You haven't been as consistent. Is there, |
| 1:44.6 | is there an area in your spiritual life, God is inviting you at the beginning of this new year to |
| 1:49.5 | grow? Well, this upcoming Sunday, we have the baptism of the Lord, this great feast that marks |
| 1:55.7 | the beginning, not of just the calendar year, but something even more magnificent, which is the |
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