On January 6 Orthodox Christians celebrate the Baptism of Christ.
Services at the Church:
- Thursday, January 5, 6 p.m. – Blessing of Water
- Friday, January 6, 6:30 a.m. Divine Liturgy
The following Sunday, January 8, at 4 p.m. the four Orthodox Churches in the Jackson-Vicksburg area will celebrate this together by blessing the waters of the Ross Barnett Reservoir and plunging a Cross into it. Participating Churches are Holy Trinity and St. John the Theologian Greek Orthodox Church, Jackson, St. George Orthodox Church, Vicksburg, St. Peter Orthodox Church, Madison, and Holy Resurrection.
Join us at 4 p.m. Sunday, January 8, at Old Trace Park on the Reservoir.
Our Lord’s Baptism is one of the major events of His life. It is the inauguration of His public ministry. It is an image of His entire work of salvation: He descends into the water just as He has descended from Heaven to earth to take our life as His own, and as later He will descend into death to take our death as His own, win the victory over death and raise us to life with Him. It is the pattern of our own baptism, in which we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. (Romans 6:4)”
