A Sunday thought

Today on the Catholic calendar it is the feast of the birth of St. John the Baptist. Baptism is, I say with supreme understatement, critical to our lives as Christians. Even Our Lord had Himself baptized, because He came to fulfill the law not abolish it, and the law calls for baptism.

But why is it important? In the words of a very humble Dominican, Fr. Thomas Hennessey, as he baptized my daughter, "We now know that young Abigail shares in the Divinity of Christ." With baptism, Christ comes into our life. He becomes a part of us. And that is why it is important.