Lectio the Liturgy: The Baptism of the Lord
Baptism, Transformation and a New Identity
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Last weekend at Mass, during the Preface for the Epiphany, I said, in my mind, “Wait a minute, this sounds just like the Collect for the Baptism of the Lord.” In the Preface at Epiphany, we prayed, “and when he appeared in our mortal nature, you made us new by the glory of his immortal nature.”
This is what we pray in the A…