Showing posts with label Ordinary Time. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ordinary Time. Show all posts

Thursday, January 6, 2022

value & importance of consciousness

For last year's Epiphany post, wonder | wander | women had yet to absorb the full impact of the January 6 riot at the Capitol by Republican cronies and Donald Trump supporters. 

January 6 riot at the CapitolSamuel Corum/Getty Images

On today's Feast of the Epiphany, we are reminded that an insecure ruler was so threatened by the birth of an infant that he tried to overthrow the result by putting a hit out on a lone newborn.

Attack on the Capitol a year ago. Erin Schaff/The New York Times

The word epiphany is defined as that moment of sudden understanding or becoming conscious of something valuable or important. Much of 2020 caused epiphanies to be revealed and manifested to us in so very many ways. 

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

back to Ordinary Time

Epiphany or the 12th day of Christmas falls on January 6 and marks the official end to the festivities that mark the Christmas holidays or Christmastide

Adoration of the Magi - Leonardo da Vinci (about 1481)

According to western church traditions Christmas Time runs from First Vespers 
(Evening Prayer) of the Nativity of the Lord up to and including the Sunday after 
Epiphany or after January 6 and Ordinary Time begins on the Monday which 
follows the Sunday occurring after January 6.