I touch the flowing water of the baptismal font and take the same seat as usual in St. John the Baptist Church. I close my eyes and return to the font where I was baptized. On the day of my baptism, I see my relatives and their friends, and my name written in the book of life. This is my true home. Who am I? …I began a new life in Christ and the Holy Spirit. Through the waters of our baptism, together with all the martyrs, I share in your death and resurrection, O Lord,
I open the book of the Revelation of John and slowly read…”In heaven, I will never hunger or thirst again. There is the Lamb who leads me to streams of living water, and God the Father wipes all tears from my eyes.” I open my eyes and I hear the words:
“Rejoice… I will spread prosperity over Jerusalem like a river…as a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you…” (Is 66:10-13) “May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. … From now on, let no one make troubles for me; for I bear the marks of Jesus on my body.” (Gal 6:14-17) “Go on your way; behold, I am sending you like lambs among wolves. Carry no money bag, no sack, no sandals… cure the sick in it and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God is at hand for you.’ Whatever town you enter and they do not receive you… it will be more tolerable for Sodom on that day than for that town.” (Lk 10:3-12)
It is time to renew my life’s journey. Who am I? “The formulation of Genesis 2:24 indicates that human beings, created as man and woman, were created for unity. It also indicates that precisely this unity, through which they become one flesh, has right from the beginning a character of union derived from a choice. We read: ‘A man leaves his father and mother and cleaves to his wife.’ If the man belongs ’by nature’ to his father and mother, by virtue of procreation, on the other hand, he cleaves by choice to his wife (or she to her husband).” Pope John Paul II.
I hear Jesus Christ’s saying to me: “I have observed Satan fall like lightning from the sky.” (Lk 10:18)
Fr. Rafal Duda
Parochial Vicar