Homily for the Baptism of The Lord, January 9th, 2022
Modern technology has developed amazing and, alas, at times also unsettling ways of identifying individuals by whatever is unique to each one, such as fingerprints, eye pupils and facial traits. However, when it comes to Baptism, there is no outward sign to tell a disciple of Christ apart from any other person. On an airplane, a bus, in a stadium, even in a church, there is no way of telling who is a Christian and who is not. Such is the lofty and mysterious realm of God’s calling. Today’s readings set us on the unfamiliar path of grace. In human affairs w