Posts Tagged ‘ Theophany ’

Prayer: God among men, the Light in the Jordan – and I in his Light

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January 4, 2012
A 15th century icon of the Baptism of Christ, from the Cathedral of the Transfiguration, in Tver

Looking upon us even in our nakedness, he hath appeared in order to clothe us with our former vesture. All that is good, O Theotokos, hath come to me through thee.
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It is thy joy to shew him, O John, and to wash him in the waters

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January 3, 2012
An icon in mosaic of the Baptism of Christ, in the Monastery of St Luke, Boeotia, Greece. © Jean Housen (Wikimedia Commons), licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons licence.

Christ in his goodness is at hand, coming to the streams of the Jordan river to accomplish therein our refashioning by grace.
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