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The Water of Baptism

19:11 21/02/21

Owoyemi Olumide said: Reflection on Today's Readings, 1st Sunday of Lent, Year B, February 20th, 2021 Texts: Gen. 9:8-15; Ps. 25:4-9; 1Pet. 3:18-22; Mark 1:12-15

After the flood, through which God renewed the face of the earth, He made covenant with the people who survived the flood. The covenant was that he would not destroy the living beings with flood again. It is said, "I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” Man shall no longer be cut off by waters of flood any longer, but shall become the means through which man's sins are washed away and man renewed. That which was the means through which the first generation was destroyed has become for us the means of salvation; as the new people, with whom God made the covenant, was saved through waters of the flood, so also we are saved through the water of baptism. As the waters of the flood washed away evils and sins from the face of the earth, so also the water of baptism washes away our sins and put an end to our evil nature and thus makes us a new creation, the new people of God. In the second reading, st. Paul tells us that the water of baptism in Jesus Christ cleanses deep to the consciences through the power of His resurrection.

He says, "Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ". The cleansing power of the water of baptism is greater than that of the waters of the flood. While the water of baptism makes man a new creation, the waters of the flood did not. The water of baptism cleanses the soul, not the body.

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