![]() Early Christian writers asserted that Jesus Christ’s Baptism in the Jordan River with the presence of the Holy Spirit, sanctified the water of the Jordan River. The Jordan River Holy Water is the only remaining earthly substance that Jesus touched. And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens opened and the Spirit descending upon him like a dove, and a voice came from heaven Thou art my beloved Son with thee I am well pleased.’ (Mark 1:9-11). In those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. As Jesus had no sin, His Baptism blessed the waters, making it holy, to be used for its original purpose to be an instrument of life. The Holy Spirit who descended on Jesus Christ at the Jordan River in the form of a dove blessed the water, changing its natural properties making it a source of blessings for all mankind. The profound and beautiful power of the Holy Water that runs through the Jordan River today, is firmly rooted in the Baptism of Jesus Christ, over 2000 years ago, by John the Baptist in the Jordan River. It is where the pages of the Bible come alive and many pilgrims are overcome with emotion and a sense of serenity and spirituality they find at the Baptism Site of Jesus Christ. Being at the Baptism Site of our Lord Jesus Christ, gives us a sense of peace as if it is the ‘haven’ of the Holy Spirit. The divine spirituality and overwhelming serenity experienced at the Jordan River is unparalleled anywhere else on earth. The Jordan River is considered as the prototypical ‘river of life’ and represents flowing to a new spiritual state and purification through Holy Water to enter the Kingdom of God. The Jordan River Holy Water became a means of communion with God by touching the Holy Water that our Lord Jesus touched and blessed during His earthly mission. The water of the Jordan River became holy and purified, reviving the souls of people and saving them, healing illnesses, preserving and protecting people and their homes. His blessing is imparted to the whole world cleansing it from sin. ![]() The water of the Jordan River is the water of salvation and sanctification, a purification of flesh and spirit, a forgiveness of transgressions, an illumination of the soul, a revival of spirit, and a fountain of life. ![]() At the Baptism of Jesus, God sanctified the water of the Jordan River and it received the grace of the Holy Spirit transforming it into the water of Redemption and comfort to all mankind. Just as water had been the primeval element that witnessed God’s creation, the Holy Water of the Jordan River, blessed by the Holy Spirit, witnessed the beginning of Christianity. Jesus’ immersion in the Jordan River sanctified the water and imbued it as a precious substance left for us in memory of Him. Here, when the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove settled upon Him, above the waters of the Jordan River, the Holy Trinity was completed and the Jordan River remains the site of the divine manifestation of God on earth. This beautiful image of the powerful nature of water is repeated at the most momentous event of the Baptism of Jesus Christ in the Jordan River. The powerful symbolic importance of Holy Water is evident in the opening chapter of the Bible, a transcendent sign of God’s creative power, ‘ The spirit of God hovered over the dark waters at the moment of Creation, bringing into being, beauty, order, and creation commenced and was birthed out of the waters.’ (Genesis 1:2)
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