Today’s feast of the Baptism of the Lord brings our celebration of the Christmas Season to a close. It is a kind of threshold through which we pass each year from our reflection upon and celebration of the Mystery of the Incarnation—of the Lord’s Nativity and his early manifestations—into Ordinary Time, that part of our calendar “in which no particular aspect of the mystery of Christ is celebrated, but rather the mystery of Christ itself is honored in its fullness….” [Univers
