Our Covenants
Father in heaven, who at the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan proclaimed him your beloved Son and anointed him with the Holy Spirit: Grant that all who are baptized into his Name may keep the covenant they have made, and boldly confess him as Lord and Savior; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen. (First Sunday after the Epiphany: The Baptism of our Lord BCP 214) The First Sunday after the Epiphany is always the remembrance of Jesus' baptism and the start of Jesus' ministry. When we gather online, we will renew our own baptismal covenant in the words of the Apostle's Creed and the additional vows. For many of us, these words were first said over us by our parents and godparents on our behalf. Later in life, we accepted this covenant on our own through confirmation or reaffirmation. The Baptismal covenant, though certainly the most important in the eyes of the church, is not the only covenant we make in our lives. In our ...