Jesus walked towards the Jordan River with a longing in His Heart to be baptized. But why did Jesus need to be baptized? Is He not God? Yes, surely He is, but Jesus chose to sanctify the waters of Baptism—all the waters to be used for Baptism until the end of time—by His own Baptism by John. Stepping into the Jordan River and being baptized by John, Jesus sanctifies all the waters of Baptism. John objects and says it is I who should be baptized by You, but Jesus insists, let it be so. John did not understand it seems why Jesus wanted to be baptized by him but he obeyed the Lord, perhaps not realizing that he was participating by God’s will in an immense work of grace. The waters of Baptism would henceforth sanctify souls until the end of time.
Do we really know what goes on at Baptism? Are we aware of the graces we received by our Baptism? Baptism opens for us the gates of Heaven, which were closed by the original sin of Adam and Eve, our first parents. We inherited the sin of Adam and Eve—original sin—we their children. Baptism takes away original sin from us and enables us to enter Heaven, to enter the place in Heaven God prepared for us from all eternity. However the effects of original sin remain in…
