{"id":84616,"date":"2015-01-06T09:09:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T17:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=84616"},"modified":"2015-01-06T09:11:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T17:11:26","slug":"the-epiphany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/the-epiphany\/","title":{"rendered":"The Epiphany"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Holy<\/a>

Holy Rosary Altar Servers and MCs for the Noon Mass of the Epiphany, 2015<\/p><\/div>\n

Throughout most of the world, today is the great Feast of the Epiphany. My American readers, however, will recall celebrating the feast this past Sunday. <\/p>\n

F<\/span>or reasons I can’t quite fathom, in the dioceses of the United States this feast has been moved to the Sunday between January 2 and January 8. <\/p>\n

Needless to say, this upsets the whole “Twelve Days of Christmas” thing. This year, I guess nobody gets their twelve drummers drumming or eleven pipers piping. Quite unfair to those in the musical professions.<\/p>\n

Of course, for my Divine Office I pray the Monastic Diurnal<\/a><\/em>, and it insists that today is the Epiphany, so I get to celebrate twice!<\/p>\n

In a sense, the Feast of the Epiphany is the culmination (if not quite the end) of the Christmas Season. <\/p>\n

In our parish<\/a>, we pulled out all the liturgical stops: incense, boat bearer, torches.<\/p>\n

Father Maurer even chanted the Epiphany Proclamation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Ephiphany<\/a>At Pistachio House, we gathered with family. Francine’s nephew Jason put on a magnificent feast of roasted butternut squash soup, apple and pear salad, saut\u00e9ed cabbage, roast goose, parsnip pur\u00e9e, a port and blueberry reduction, and for dessert Portuguese walnut squares and shortbread.<\/p>\n

Yowza!<\/p>\n

And of course, we blessed Pistachio House using a somewhat shortened version of the traditional Epiphany blessing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In the popular imagination, the Feast of the Epiphany is all about the Magi from the East who traveled to worship the Christ child and gift him gold, frankincense, and myrrh. <\/p>\n

But that’s not the whole story, for the Epiphany actually celebrates three separate events, only one of which is Magi with their three gifts. <\/p>\n

In the Monastic Diurnal<\/em>, this morning’s Benedictus<\/em> antiphon speaks of all three:<\/p>\n

\"Benedictus<\/a><\/p>\n

Each of these events is an epiphany:<\/p>\n

In the River Jordan, Christ is revealed as the Son of God.<\/p>\n

In the story of the pilgrim Magi, Christ is revealed as the Light to the Gentiles.<\/p>\n

In the wedding feast at Cana, Christ is revealed as a Worker of Miracles.<\/p>\n

Notice first the thread throughout of the wedding of Christ the bridegroom with the Church, His spouse.<\/p>\n

Then take a look at these three epiphanies. It’s as if Christ is teaching us who He is a step at a time; as our understanding deepens, a new revelation is granted us. <\/p>\n

And really, if you look at Salvation history, this is exactly how God operates, bringing along His people step by step into a deeper understanding and an ever more moral and spiritual state.<\/p>\n

God teaches us as a Father should, by bringing us along bit by bit. You need to know your letters before you can learn to read. You need to know how to read before you can learn to write a novel. Step by step. Epiphany by epiphany.<\/p>\n

A very blessed Feast of Epiphany to all of you, whenever you celebrate it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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