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DEACONS GEORGE’S HOMILY FOR SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Jews were never baptised. They were Jews simply because they were born of Jewish parents. Therefore, because of their Jewish birth, they were already within the faith of Judaism. The Jews believed that they were chosen ones of God, and they were already assured of God’s salvation, and therefore they had no need of baptism. However, for a gentile, i.e. a non-Jew, to embrace Judaism and be allowed to worship in the synagogue, he had to become a “God Fearer” or “proselyte”. And in order to become a “God Fearer”, it was required that he be baptised. He had to be baptised, because he had to renounce his previous sinful way of life, or former religion, in order to be cleansed and become one with the chosen people. But then along came John the Baptist, whose personal calling from God, was to make the Jews realize their own sins, and their need of God….
Holy Trinity and St George 