As soon as Jesus was baptised he came up from the water, and suddenly the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming down on him. ‘It is I who need baptism from you’ he said ‘and yet you come to me!’ But Jesus replied, ‘Leave it like this for the time being it is fitting that we should, in this way, do all that righteousness demands’. Then Jesus appeared: he came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptised by John. His winnowing-fan is in his hand he will clear his threshing-floor and gather his wheat into the barn but the chaff he will burn in a fire that will never go out.’ĩ.
I baptise you in water for repentance, but the one who follows me is more powerful than I am, and I am not fit to carry his sandals he will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire.Ĩ. Even now the axe is laid to the roots of the trees, so that any tree which fails to produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown on the fire.ħ. But if you are repentant, produce the appropriate fruit, and do not presume to tell yourselves, “We have Abraham for our father”, because, I tell you, God can raise children for Abraham from these stones. But when he saw a number of Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism he said to them, ‘Brood of vipers, who warned you to fly from the retribution that is coming?Ħ. Then Jerusalem and all Judaea and the whole Jordan district made their way to him, and as they were baptised by him in the river Jordan they confessed their sins.ĥ. This man John wore a garment made of camel-hair with a leather belt round his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.Ĥ. This was the man the prophet Isaiah spoke of when he said: A voice cries in the wilderness: prepare a way for the Lord, make his paths straight.ģ. In due course John the Baptist appeared he preached in the wilderness of Judaea and this was his message: ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is close at hand’.Ģ. The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan The Baptism of our Lord in the Jordanġ. The pope stressed that adding the Luminous Mysteries is done “without prejudice to any essential aspect of the prayer’s traditional format, is meant to give it fresh life and to enkindle renewed interest in the Rosary’s place within Christian spirituality as a true doorway to the depths of the Heart of Christ, ocean of joy and of light, of suffering and of glory.Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary Prayers Audio: Thus, for the rosary to “become more fully a ‘compendium of the Gospel,’” the pope considered it appropriate that there be “a meditation on certain particularly significant moments in his public ministry, following reflection on the Incarnation and the hidden life of Christ (the joyful mysteries) and before focusing on the sufferings of his Passion (the sorrowful mysteries) and the triumph of his Resurrection (the glorious mysteries).” John Paul II also noted in his apostolic letter that “it is during the years of his public ministry that the mystery of Christ is most evidently a mystery of light: ‘While I am in the world, I am the light of the world’ (Jn 9:5).” Thus in these mysteries “we contemplate important aspects of the person of Christ as the definitive revelation of God,” the pope said, since it is he who “declared the beloved Son of the Father at the Baptism in the Jordan, Christ is the one who announces the coming of the Kingdom, bears witness to it in his works and proclaims its demands.” The pope proposed the Luminous Mysteries to “highlight the Christological character of the rosary.” These mysteries refer to “Christ’s public ministry between his Baptism and his Passion,” the Holy Father explained.
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