Dear Parishioners:
The Baptismal Font of St. Timothy
Parish is always flowing. When I arrived
here and discovered that it was so, I was especially delighted because I
believe that this is a subtle way of teaching us how to think of our own
Baptisms.
The simple truth is that once Baptism
begins, it does not end. We are baptized
into Jesus Christ. His Life begins to be
lived in us as soon as we are touched by the Sacrament of Baptism. Although we can “block” the flow of grace by
sin, we cannot be “un-baptized.” The
Sacraments that follow after Baptism deepen the flow of grace and renew it when
we go off track. The Life that we enter
into through Baptism never ends. We
share in God’s glory through the touch of the Sacraments in different ways, but
it is always the flow of the grace that started in us at Baptism. The Christ-Life in us becomes a source of
grace for us and for the world through us.
How powerful God’s grace is in
us! If we only recognized the holiness
to which we are called through the gift of Baptism!
Parents bear a great responsibility
in helping their children to know the Faith both by teaching them, and by
giving them a living example. When
children are taught in our Parochial School or in Religious education classes,
they can learn the facts. Their teachers
and other students serve as examples to them.
But no one more than parents can help them come to understand what it
means to live in the light of the Sacramental grace that is theirs through
Baptism.
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