{"id":6246,"date":"2025-01-09T16:06:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T20:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/?p=6246"},"modified":"2025-01-09T16:06:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T20:06:28","slug":"jolt-of-faith-1-8-25-defining-moments-the-feast-of-the-baptism-of-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/en\/jolt-of-faith-1-8-25-defining-moments-the-feast-of-the-baptism-of-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Jolt of Faith &#8211; 1\/8\/25 &#8211; Defining Moments: the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">We all have defining moments in life.Whether it&#8217;s that time we realized we had a special passion or calling for a career.Maybe it&#8217;s when we met our spouse or maybe it&#8217;s the first time we became a parent.There&#8217;s defining moments that define the course of our lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">People of faith, we have those as well.And those can be varied, but there&#8217;s one that we all share in common, and that&#8217;s our baptism. And the problem is most of us were baptized when we were little kids, infants, so we don&#8217;t remember that defining moment.And that&#8217;s why the Church celebrates this weekend, the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Now Jesus didn&#8217;t need to be baptized from sin like you and I do, but he wanted to establish it as a defining moment for us.That that defining moment can be something that&#8217;s not just a memory in the scrapbook, but there can be something that affects and changes how we live our daily lives.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jolt of Faith - 1\/8\/25 - Defining Moments: the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LmLjad6zpk0?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all have defining moments in life.Whether it&#8217;s that time we realized we had a special passion or calling for a career.Maybe it&#8217;s when we met our spouse or maybe it&#8217;s the first time we became a parent.There&#8217;s defining moments that define the course of our lives. People of faith, we have those as well.And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jolt","has-post-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6249,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246\/revisions\/6249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}