When is feast of the epiphany 2011

He made himself available to the people and taught in their synagogues. He did the reading, most probably chosen by himself, on the sabbath day and we cannot read these words from Isaiah without visioning the Lord, the one who was reading them. It is Jesus who has been anointed to bring glad tidings to the poor, it is Jesus who has come to proclaim liberty to those who are captives of the darkness of sin, it is Jesus who gives light to our eyes so we may see and who frees those who are oppressed and burdened with the things of this world.

Jesus is telling the people then and us now to look to him for relief from our problems and troubles, to look to him for the awakening of our spiritual lives and to be free from the bonds of greed, violence, rage, lust and the other torments of the world of darkness.

Jesus is the light, the way, the truth. There are many times for all of us when things get to be too much to bear and we run in the wrong direction for help. We run away from Jesus to our other idols. I really do not understand why we do this, but we do. When life gets a bit overwhelming, that is exactly the time to run toward Jesus, into his arms, and let him help us. Friday after Epiphany Luke 5: The man had an overwhelming problem indeed.

Leprosy was and is a terrible disease. In the World Health Organization reported 2 to 3 million people disabled because of leprosy at that time. Leprosy can now be cured but in Biblical times there was no cure. Those who contracted this horrible disease were banished from the regular community of peoples and were forced to live in designated areas outside the towns. Whenever they ventured out on the roads to go somewhere, they had to ring a bell to warn people they were around.

The leper in the Gospel knew this only too well and he also knew where to take his problem. And Jesus touched him and the leprosy left the man immediately!

Saturday after Epiphany John 3: In the Gospel today both Jesus and John the Baptist are baptizing in the same locale. The Gospel stresses the supportive role of John the Baptist. We have commented before about how selfish and self-oriented we are as children. It is quite literally all about me. But it cannot stay that way! And this is the point we sometimes miss.

Sooner or later we discover we live in society and it must be all about us and not about me alone. And spiritually it must be all about Jesus who is our way, truth and life. He must increase and I must decrease. Lord, draw us closer to each other and to you. Life is not all about me!

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Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. Share Flipboard Email. Scott P. Catholicism Expert. Richert is senior content network manager of Our Sunday Visitor. Updated February 04, In the Middle Ages it was spread by Franciscans. The legend says that the tradition of displaying nativity play was initiated by Saint. Francis of Assisi. The Procession of the Magi is a direct reference to this old nativity play tradition. At the same time, it brings events from thousands of years ago to the present day - so that this most important story in the history of the world can be told again and again.

That is why in the procession traditional threads are combined with the most current ones to show that events from before years still have significance for modern man. They are riding on horses or camels, in rich-looking robes and headgear. Their entourage consists of hundreds of children dressed in colorful costumes testifying to belonging to one of the three retinue.

They are accompanied by highlander bands, live animals. They are followed by city dwellers in colorful crowns on their heads, singing Christmas carols. At the end, these Kings are bowing to the little Baby Jesus and the Holy Family, and then people sing carols together. The Procession of the Magi was held for the first time in Warsaw in - on the Sunday preceding the Epiphany.