Epiphany | Naming the Days

Epiphany, the day after Christmastide or the 12 days of Christmas, is historically celebrated in Christian church buildings on the primary Sunday of a New 12 months, between January 2 and eight. The day commemorates the go to of the Three Magic to the child Jesus in Bethlehem.

Catholic devotional author Edward Hays, who painted the portrait of the Three Kings at proper, notes in A Pilgrim’s Almanac that it is a day to honor the good star that led the Magi to the Christ little one. It’s a day to “convey peace and a blessing to your private home” and “to ponder the bigger dwelling by which you reside, our galaxy, which is positioned in that huge and superior neighborhood of the universe.”

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Rituals

Hays presents a very good ritual:

“Step outdoors this night and search for on the over 200 billion stars that blaze in magnificence in our galaxy alone. The splendor of it ought to trigger you to hope as did the Magi in adoration of God.”