This is the movement of the Holy Family.

Welcome to our daily 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 we've promised to pray for.

Today we celebrate the baptism of Jesus.

All who came to John to be baptized in the Jordan River understood that it signified 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, that baptism itself was

an admittance of sin, an attempt to put off the old, failed life, and put on a new one.

But is that something that Jesus could do? And this is why John was thrown off, and he wanted to prevent him.

He said, behold, you are the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

I need to be baptized by you.

Why do you come to me?

Why does Jesus come to be baptized?

Our Father, who art in heaven,

hallow it be your name.

Thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses

as we forgive those who trespass against us

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