The lakeside Blessing of the Waters ceremony ... event for St. Michael’s Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church. It commemorates the Theophany, or the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River.

Christian Orthodox worshippers gathered at the the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Thursday, to mark the start of the Orthodox ...

The Orthodox Church connects it primarily with ... of the fact that Christ consecrated the Jordan River with his baptism. The ceremony of the Great Consecration of Water is performed twice ...