Why did Jesus get baptized? It's a question that has vexed the Church for centuries. Why does he need to if he's sinless? Is it just to set an example? Fr. Allen propses a way of looking at this event that opens us to an amazing unfolding that involves Gid, the World, indeed all of us.
Image: Zelenka, Dave. Baptism of Christ, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=56385 [retrieved January 23, 2025]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baptism-of-Christ.jpg.