"Lectio Divina" Bible Study
  EVERY THURSDAY
7:00 p.m. at Saint Mary's Rectory will discuss upcoming weekend's Gospel reading, will not go beyond one hour.
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The Baptism of Jesus

Through Baptism the Christian is sacramentally assimilated to Jesus, who in his own baptism anticipates his death and resurrection. The Christian must enter into this mystery of humble self-abasement and repentance, go down into the water with Jesus in order to rise with him, be reborn of water and the Spirit so as to become the Father's beloved son in the Son and "walk in newness of life":

Let us be buried with Christ by Baptism to rise with him; let us go down with him to be raised with him; and let us rise with him to be glorified with him.

Everything that happened to Christ lets us know that, after the bath of water, the Holy Spirit swoops down upon us from high heaven and that, adopted by the Father's voice, we become sons of God.   

 Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 537  ----------------------

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The Holy See
 

United States
Conference of Catholic Bishops

New York State
Conference of Catholic Bishops

Roman Catholic
Archdiocese of New York

Roman Catholic
Diocese of Albany

Cathedral of the
Immaculate Conception
Albany, NY

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