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With the celebration of the Solemnity of Christ's baptism, we end the Christmas season and enter the Ordinary Time of the liturgical calendar.

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Today is the Third Sunday of Advent and it is only fifteen days before Christmas and by now, you must have noticed that our gospel readings these days focus on the life and times of St. John the Baptist, the precursor of the coming Messiah. The gospel reading today comes from Matt.11:2-11 about the messengers from John the Baptist.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1248887 [Title] => 3-month-old Prince George is baptized in London [Summary] =>

Dressed in a lace and satin gown designed in the 1840s, Britain's 3-month-old future monarch, Prince George, was christened Wednesday with water from the River Jordan at a rare gathering of four generations of the royal family.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-24 08:39:06 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1345815 [AuthorName] => Gregory Katz [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/6769/ectx.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 646236 [Title] => The Baptism of our Lord Jesus Christ [Summary] =>

After our Lord Jesus Christ was born, the next big thing for his parents to do after introducing the new baby to friends and family (or in this case to the Shepherd and the Magi) was to baptize the child.

[DatePublished] => 2011-01-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 539266 [Title] => The proclamation of John The Baptist [Summary] =>

Last week’s Sunday gospel was the visit of the Magi or the Three Kings, a.k.a. the Epiphany or the “Manifestation of God” where He revealed Himself when the Three Kings came from faraway lands to do him homage.

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