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Bruce remembers watching a group...

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The Baptism of our Lord | Epiphany 1 | Ordinary Time 1 - B
Mark 1:4-11
Bruce remembers watching a group of people gather at the river every spring for baptism. Everyone dressed in white, members of the church as well as those to be baptized. The pastor would baptize believers in waist-deep water. The service itself would last several hours. Bruce would often wonder how and why people would stand in the dirty river for so long. It was simply absurd and would bring a chuckle every year as he drove by and saw the people in the river. However, he never heard anyone from the church complain.
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