The Theophany narrative is one that includes the testimony of the Lord’s Baptism. The Baptism of Lord reminds us that the fact of the Lord’s Baptism forms in our consciousness a living icon of the Trinity, the revelation –a Theophany; the manifestation of the Tri-One God. In the Baptism, the world’s waters were sanctified and the Cosmos underwent a metamorphosis of Divine Energies.
What we commemorated on January 6, the Theophany, has direct consequences in how we live today.
Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, from a Sermon by Saint Gregory of Nazianzus, bishop (330-389 AD):
Today let us do honor to Christ’s baptism and celebrate this feast in holiness. Nothing gives such pleasure to God as the conversion and salvation of men, for whom his every word and every revelation exist. He wants you to become a living force for all mankind, lights shining in the world. You are to be radiant lights as you stand beside Christ, the great light, bathed in the glory of him who is the light of heaven.”