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Remember the day you were Baptized. The Mass is a moment unlike any other. We receive Jesus Christ, really present in the Eucharist. We’re receiving God! And we can receive Christ in the Eucharist because we have been baptized and we have been granted the Gift of Being God’s children. It is our birthday in the Church as a member of the Body of Christ. . Let’s remember that today. Let’s remember that we are baptized.  Whenever life hurts, let’s remember the gift of our baptism. God is near us, and he turns even our suffering into joy.  Our baptism is not a thing of the past. It’s a living reality, today.  Pope Francis often asks people if they know the day of their baptism. Do we all know ours? It’s a day of celebration.  Look it up. Find out what day you were baptized. And celebrate that. Thank God for that.  At his baptism, Jesus experienced divine love with new intensity; he responded to that gift with such fierce passion that his subsequent life and death transformed the world.   This same “spirit and fire” is the inheritance of all Christians. When Christians announce to the world that their life is now under God’s reign, they encounter the same divine love Jesus experienced. In that encounter, Christians find a mission that perfects their own abilities and continues some aspect of Jesus’ work. St. Paul was already a skilled teacher of Jewish law when an encounter with divine love drew him to preach the new way of Christ  . This same love is available to transform us today. Any who, like Christ, confess themselves publicly to be citizens of God’s kingdom will find in that declaration a love no fear can extinguish. The divine love that renews an individual believer has, within that believer’s response, the power to bring an entire community to new life. Once again I want to thank you for being Committed Christians being reminded of the Baptismal Call we have received .The Diocesan Conference was a wonderful opportunity to renew our task and ministry we have taken up as Christian disciples. I hope all of you had a spiritual moment to be reawakened and please do not extinguish that zeal and light you have received and spread it in our ministries in the Parish. Thank you to each and every person who helped at the Mass for our New Governor Steve Sisolak who himself acknowledged his gratitude to me in person .The Choir and the children from the School did their best The credit goes to our community of Faithful .We continue to wish and pray that the Governor and the elected officials maybe guided by the Holy Spirit in their tasks rooted in justice, truth , goodness and dignity of human life I gratefully acknowledge all your financial contributions and generosity to our Parish during this Christmas Season and for 2018 . Thank you for those beautiful Christmas Cards and kindness to me as well. I am still figuring out the names of people and I appreciate you all from the bottom of my heart. May the Lord bless you for sharing your Blessings. Now that the season of Christmas over there is a tendency among us that fun days are over and we can easily go into Luke warmness in our spiritual life . The Ordinary time is calling us to live our spiritual moments we received during Christmas time and see the Divine in the ordinary situations of life .To reach out to the poor and being loving and caring to family members and friends is just not a Christmas time phenomenon ,we live it out every day in the best way possible. Then we are transformed people and 2019 resolutions will be possible Today, on the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, as we receive him in the Eucharist, Jesus wants to tell us:  “You are a baptized Catholic. You are the beloved son of God, the beloved daughter of God. In you the Father is well pleased.” When we listen to His voice, we enter more and more into a relationship that changes our lives because it changes our hearts; it brings us to see the face of God, made visible for us in Jesus. God Bless you all.Fr .Tom Babu