He Wades in the Water to Hallow It
The baptism of Jesus is the great sanctification of water
In the church year, Sunday is Baptism of the Lord.
St. Philaret the Confessor preached a homily on the passage, in which he makes the point— going back to Maximus— that Christ enters the water at the Jordan River in order to sanctify it for our own later baptisms.
He wri…
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