Epiphany journey and rest
6th January is the Feast of the Epiphany. It marks the end of the Christmas season and the start of the Epiphany season which continues to Candlemas on 2nd February. The celebration on 6th January features the strange outsiders from the east, the magi, the 'wise men'. They followed the direction of a new star, expecting to find a new special king. What they found was a toddler with his parents, in an ordinary house in Bethlehem, on what was presumably for Mary, Joseph and their son Jesus, an ordinary day. And they were overwhelmed with joy. You can find my previous posts for Epiphany on my Epiphany page here . Something wonderful was revealed to those mysterious strangers that the locals didn't see. They experienced an 'epiphany', an eye-opener, a moment of revelation. They glimpsed the glory of God in the face of the child Jesus. You can read the story in Matthew's gospel here and you might notice that unlike most nativity plays there are no cam...