01.09.16

Lectio: Lk 3.15-16, 21-22                                                                      

Meditatio: “After all the people had been baptized and Jesus also had been baptized and was praying; heaven was opened and he holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my beloved Son, with you I am well pleased’.”
 Lk 3.21-22

Oratio: O God, Jesus did not need to be baptized as He was sinless; nevertheless He did so to show His solidarity with us. Pray to be always grateful for our baptism through which we received the Holy Spirit and we were adopted as Jesus’ siblings.                                                   
                                                                        
Contemplatio: Spend some time with today's text and see how the Lord is speaking to you.

Operatio: reflect: “Jesus...baptized....Spirit descended..voice....beloved Son”; Jesus’ baptism revealed much about our baptism for as He was anointed by the Holy Spirit and endorsed by His Father so do we experience the same at our baptism. Seek the grace to live as God’s children and reflect it by a life of selfless love for in doing so, we will have captured the mysstery of divine love and the reason for Jesus’ coming.

Tomorrow's reading: Mk 1.14-20