What do these epiphanies have to do with us?
The same Spirit of God who renews the universe, renewed the covenant,
and descended upon Jesus has been “richly poured out on us” in “the bath of rebirth.”
With Jesus, we have been baptized “with the Holy Spirit and fire.
” Those of us who were baptized as infants may not remember our Baptism;
even less might we remember our experience of God made manifest in us that day.
Yet every time our community prays the Eucharistic Prayer and shares in Holy Communion
the Spirt descends upon us again, pouring out the divine life that renews and “fires” us.
As we move in Ordinary Time we will hear how the Spirit propelled Jesus forth to proclaim the
Good News. Through our sharing in the Holy Spirit in Baptism and Eucharist we, too,
are propelled forth to make Christ manifest in the world.
God is manifested in visible form today by the renewal and the “fire” of all the baptized.