Who Are You?
On one level this is a very simply question, you are a student at the university, or someone working at such and such place. You live in Winnipeg, Manitoba and you are currently sitting in Christ the King Chapel at St. Pauls College. You are related to so and so, and you have your own experiences, ideas, and originality. But yet, one can still ask, who are you? Who is the true you? Who are you, without relation to any job, place, amount of money, or prestige? What, at the very end of the chain, is it that you call you?
Today, on this last day of the Christmas season, we celebrate the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Jesus seeks out John and receives his baptism. John’s baptism allowed the revelation of Jesus’ true identity to all those around. His true identity comes from that heavenly voice who says that Jesus is the beloved Son, with whom God is well pleased. The first chapter of Matthew relates Jesus within history, and the second chapter relates Jesus to a series of places. Now, in the third chapter (where our Gospel is taken from) the identity of Jesus is beginning to be revealed. However, it is only the beginning, which culminates in the sacrifice on the cross at the end of his mission when the centurion would say “Truly this man was the Son of God” (Mth 27:54)
As baptized Catholics we have become part of the family of God. We no longer belong to ourselves, but through our common baptism we belong to our savior who died upon the altar of the cross. Through baptism, as Peter writes in his epistle, we become “ a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, that declare the wonderful deeds of him who called us out of darkness into his marvelous light” (1 Peter 2: 9). We loose all that separates us from each other and we join this eternal family in praising God.
In Christ we find our hearts fulfillment; we find who we truly are. Through our king who sacrificed himself for our salvation, we find our truest self, our true core, our deepest serenity. May we continuously turn to Christ, and accept the new life he offers. Together, let us build this family of faith in the world and ask for the grace to continuously grow in his love and will so that we too may be able to hear God say “This is my beloved child, in whom I am well pleased!”
So, who are you?
Today, on this last day of the Christmas season, we celebrate the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Jesus seeks out John and receives his baptism. John’s baptism allowed the revelation of Jesus’ true identity to all those around. His true identity comes from that heavenly voice who says that Jesus is the beloved Son, with whom God is well pleased. The first chapter of Matthew relates Jesus within history, and the second chapter relates Jesus to a series of places. Now, in the third chapter (where our Gospel is taken from) the identity of Jesus is beginning to be revealed. However, it is only the beginning, which culminates in the sacrifice on the cross at the end of his mission when the centurion would say “Truly this man was the Son of God” (Mth 27:54)
As baptized Catholics we have become part of the family of God. We no longer belong to ourselves, but through our common baptism we belong to our savior who died upon the altar of the cross. Through baptism, as Peter writes in his epistle, we become “ a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, that declare the wonderful deeds of him who called us out of darkness into his marvelous light” (1 Peter 2: 9). We loose all that separates us from each other and we join this eternal family in praising God.
In Christ we find our hearts fulfillment; we find who we truly are. Through our king who sacrificed himself for our salvation, we find our truest self, our true core, our deepest serenity. May we continuously turn to Christ, and accept the new life he offers. Together, let us build this family of faith in the world and ask for the grace to continuously grow in his love and will so that we too may be able to hear God say “This is my beloved child, in whom I am well pleased!”
So, who are you?
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