{"id":109350,"date":"2025-01-05T12:56:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T20:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=109350"},"modified":"2025-01-05T12:56:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T20:56:35","slug":"epiphany-confusion-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/epiphany-confusion-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The Twelfth Day of Christmas: Epiphany Confusion!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

H<\/span>appy twelfth day of Christmas! I hope you’re enjoying your twelve drummers drumming. Depending on what calendar you happen to be using, today might very well be the Epiphany for you. If so, happy Epiphany!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Traditionally, though, the Epiphany is celebrated on January 6. Since the calendar reforms of 1970, any diocese may choose to move the celebration to the Sunday following January 1<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>. Indeed, this is what my own archdiocese of Seattle does. This morning at my parish<\/a>, we celebrated the Mass of the Epiphany; so, happy Epiphany!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In many other places in the United States and around the world, today is simply the Second Sunday after Christmas<\/em>. This is what it is in my Benedictine Ordo, though I chose to pray Lauds of the Epiphany this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From ancient times right up until 1955, today would have been the proper Vigil of the Epiphany<\/a><\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Regardless of anything else, it’s still the twelfth day of Christmas, and this evening is called Twelfth Night – traditionally the vigil of the Epiphany. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was traditionally a time of feasting<\/a> and festivity (all of which seem to include various varieties of enormous <\/a>pastries<\/a>) marking the end of Christmastide and the beginning of Epiphanytide<\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These days, of course, the calendar has been moved around a bit and the Christmas Season doesn’t end until the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, which is a week from now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mind you, there’s no reason not to have the pastries anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the great Epiphany traditions is the Epiphany house blessing<\/a>. More on that tomorrow!<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Epiphany is depicted in a mural titled “Adoration of the Magi” in the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception at Conception Abbey in Conception, Mo. Painted by Benedictine monks in the late 1800s.<\/mark><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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