If I were to ask you today, “which of you knows the exact date of your baptism?” I do not think there would be too many hands raised….

Yet, it is the day on which we were saved, it is the day on which we became children of God.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church reminds us that the faith required for baptism is not a perfect and mature faith, but a beginning that is called to develop (CCC 1253). Each time we participate in the Eucharist, we join together as a family to renew our commitment to do what Jesus told us to commit our lives to do. what he did … “wash one another’s feet as he washed ours.”

A woman wrote of the beginning years of her marriage: “I have become aware of what it means to be loved and it is that awareness of being loved that I am trying to share with others.” What a beautiful way of getting at yet another dimension of loving.