The Catholic Calendar for Sunday, January 4, 2004
The Epiphany of the Lord

Scripture from today's Liturgy of the Word:
Isaiah 60:1-6
Psalm 72:1-2,7-8,10-13
Ephesians 3:2-3,5-6
Matthew 2:1-12

A reflection on today's Sacred Scripture:

How many times have you celebrated the feast of the Epiphany -- the Feast of the Three Kings, the Magi? It's a scriptural story that conjures up all kinds of wonderful images.

Imagine three people traveling a great distance following the light of a star, motivated by an internal awareness that its luminous rising portended something astounding. It has all the components of the kind of tale that captures the imagination and at the same time strikes a chord of truth.

That is what this feast is all about - the astounding fact that the God of all creation, leapt out of heaven and came to rest as a small helpless infant in the poverty of a Bethlehem stall and that people of good will of every race and religious and ethnic background would find in Him their long-awaited salvation.

Can there be any better story with any better beginning and as we know, a better ending?

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him might not perish but have eternal life." (John 3:16)

Come, brothers and sisters.
Come, let us adore Him, the Lord!


- Donna Nelson, ocds (drn3rd at hotmail dot com)

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