Overview
- Commentaries note the feast concludes the Christmas season and begins Ordinary Time.
- Writers recount Matthew’s account of Jesus’ baptism with the Spirit descending like a dove and the Father’s voice declaring him beloved.
- Columns affirm baptism as making Christians children of God and as the start of a lifelong configuration to Christ within the Church.
- An Argentine columnist questions baptizing children without ongoing family and parish formation amid declining religious practice.
- A Mexican columnist uses the reflection to denounce the national constitution as anti‑Christian, criticize abortion policy, and highlight economic neglect of farmers.