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SUMMARY:Baptism of the Lord
DESCRIPTION:Disclosing the Mystery of Christ’s Baptism A homily by St Gregory Palamas \n“This is my beloved Son\, in whom I am well pleased”\nGreat and exalted…is the mystery of Christ’s baptism contained in these\nfew words. It is both difficult to contemplate and hard to interpret\, and no less\ndifficult to comprehend. But since it pertains especially to our salvation\, we are\npersuaded by Him who urges us to search the Scriptures\, and take courage to\ninvestigate the power of the mystery\, as far as it is accessible to us. Just as in the\nbeginning\, after God had said\, “Let us make man in our image\, after our\nlikeness”…so now that our nature was being re-made in Christ\, when the Holy\nSpirit was revealed through His descent from the supracelestial regions upon the\nLord being baptized in the Jordan\, He disclosed the mystery of the most sublime\nand all-accomplishing Trinity\, which is able to save reasonable creatures. \n…Man is the only creature who\, in the image of the tri-hypostatic Being\,\nhas a mind\, reason\, and a spirit which gives life to his body\, inasmuch as he also\nhas a body which needs to be infused with life. When our nature was re-made in\nthe Jordan\, the most sublime and all-accomplishing Trinity was made manifest\,\nas the archetype of the image in our soul. \n“And lo”\, it says\, when He had just risen up from under the water\, before\nHe had stepped out\, “the heavens were opened unto him”. Please make a mental\neffort\, brethren\, and focus your minds on what I am saying with the utmost care\,\nthat you may understand the power of the mystery of Christian baptism. For the\ntime of His baptism\, foreshadowed His descent into Hades; and\, accordingly\, His\ncoming up from under the water prefigured His resurrection from the dead. \nAs a fitting consequence\, when He came up from the water the heavens\nwere immediately opened to Him. For at the time of His descent into Hades\, He\nwent under the earth for our sake\, and on returning thence\, He opened all things\nboth to Himself and to us\, not just things on or around the earth\, but highest\nheaven itself\, to which afterwards He ascended bodily…Just as He foreshowed\nthe saving passion through the mystical bread and cup\, and then handed on this\nmystery to the faithful to perform for their salvation\, so He mystically foretold\nHis descent into Hades and His ascent from there through this baptism of His\,\nand afterwards passed on this sacrament to believers to perform that they may be\nsaved. He allowed Himself suffering right from the start through these painless\nmeans\, causing us\, according to the apostle\, to be “planted together in the\nlikeness of his death”\, that in due time we might also be vouchsafed the promised\nresurrection. \n“The heavens were opened unto him”\, that He might be manifestly shown\nto be the one who existed before the heavens\, or rather\, who was before anything\nexisted\, as being with God\, as the Word and Son of God\, whose Father was not\nborn before Him\, and as having a name with the Father\, “Which is above every\nname” and all speech. For when all those earthly and heavenly things which\nappeared to be between Him and His Father in heaven were torn asunder and\nthrown to each side\, He alone was shown to be united with the Father and the\nSpirit\, as He existed with Them before anything was made. \n2 Saint Gregory Palamas. Saint Gregory Palamas: The Homilies. Trans. Christopher Veniamin. \nWaymart\, PA: Mount Thabor Publishing\, 2009\, 493-497.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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SUMMARY:Jim Finley
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