Epiphany

Epiphany: Epiphany - Festival of The Twelfth Night

Epiphany celebrates the intervention of God in the life of a people, relating effectively, the Christmas message which emerged from Christ's birth place at Bethlehem. Hence it is also called the Feast of Lights or the Candlemas Feast.

In the past it was also known as the Twelfth Day as it falls on the twelfth day after Christmas and winds up formally the Christmas season of rejoicing.

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Epiphany: Encyclopedia - Epiphany Epiphany (Greek: επιφάνεια, "the appearance; miraculous phenomenon") is a Christian feast intended to celebrate the 'shining forth' or revelation of God to mankind in human form, in the person of Jesus. The observance had its origins in the eastern Christian churches, and included the birth of Jesus; the visit of the Magi, or Wise Men (traditionally named Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar) who arrived in Bethlehem; and all of Jesus' childhood events, up to his baptism in the Jordan by John the Baptist. The feast was initially based on, and viewed as a fulfillment of, the Jewis ...

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Epiphany: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary on Epiphany

Epiphany (from Greek epi to + phaino appear)

In the Christian Church, the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles, celebrated later in the Christian Church on January 6, and variously referred to the baptism of Christ, the visit of the Magi to Bethlehem, and other events noted in the New Testament.

In connection with initiation, it means a minor manifestation of the inner god to the candidate, as contrasted with theophany, which takes place in a higher degree, and is the appearance of the inner god.

Epiphany: Epiphany - Amid darkness, light

Epiphany: Amid darkness, light

There's a temptation to feel a little bit of a letdown this time of year, even after a really great holiday season. And there's unrest in many places vying for center stage on news broadcasts around the world. Not all the darkness is outside; our hearts have been touched and saddened.

Epiphany: Encyclopedia II - Biblical Magi - Epiphany

Christianity celebrates the three kings on the day of Epiphany, January 6, the last of the "twelve days of Christmas". In Spain and throughout the Spanish-speaking world, the three kings (Sp. "los Reyes Magos de Oriente", also "Los Tres Reyes Magos", receive wish letters from children and magically bring them gifts on the night before Epiphany. The Wise Men come from the Orient on their camels to visit the houses of all the children; like the Northern European Santa Claus with his reindeer, they visit everyone in one night. In ...

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Epiphany: Encyclopedia - Biblical Magi

In Christian tradition the Magi, also known as the Three Wise Men or Kings from the east, are Zoroastrian judicial astrologers or magi who according to Matthew 2:1 came "from the east to Jerusalem", to worship the Infant Jesus, him "that is born King of the Jews". Thus the magi that came from the east, from the Persian Empire, were the world's first religious figures to worship him. Among their gifts were chrismatic herbs for anointing him the Christ. Their traditional names are Casper, Melchior and Balthazar. ...

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Biblical Magi - St Matthew's account

Biblical Magi - When did the magi see Jesus?

Biblical Magi - Opposing views

Epiphany: Encyclopedia - Ascension

Advent Christmastide Epiphany Pre-Lent Lent Eastertide Ascension Day Pentecost Ordinary Time Pre-Advent Feast of Cross Nativity Fast Nativity Theophany Great Lent Pascha Pentecost Transfiguration Dormition Intercession The Christian doctrine of the Ascension holds that Jesus bodily ascended to heaven following his resurrection. This is affirmed by Christi ...

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Epiphany: Encyclopedia - Baptism of the Lord

The Baptism of the Lord is the name of a feast day observed in the Roman Catholic Church. The feast commemorates the baptism of Jesus by St. John the Baptist. From 1970 to the present, in every country except the United States, the Baptism of the Lord has been celebrated on the first Sunday after the Epiphany, or January 6 (prior to that year the Feast of the Holy Family was observed on this Sunday; since then the latter has been marked on the Sunday between Christmas and New Year's Day, or December 30 in years where both Chris ...

Epiphany: Encyclopedia - We Three Kings

We Three Kings of Orient Are is a Christmas carol (technically an Epiphany carol) written in 1857 by Reverend John Henry Hopkins. He wrote both the words and the music as part of a Christmas pageant for the General Theological Seminary in New York City. It first appeared in his Carols, Hymns and Song in 1863. Hopkins was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1820, and died in Hudson, New York in 1891. He was a clergyman, author, book illustrator, stained glass window designer, and editor of the Church Journal out of New York. In the United Kingdom, it is common for school children to ...

Epiphany: Encyclopedia - Christmas

Christmas (literally, the Mass of Christ) is a traditional holiday observed in much of the world on 25 December, or on 7 January in most Eastern Orthodox Churches. It is celebrated by most Christians to mark the birth of Jesus, which is believed to have occurred in Bethlehem in the Roman Province of Judea between 6 BC and AD 6. Christ's birth, or nativity, was said by his followers to fulfill the prophecies of Judaism that a messiah would come, from the house of David, to redeem the world from sin. Interestingly, early Christians plac ...

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Epiphany: Encyclopedia - Christina Mason

Singer-songwriter Christina Mason was born in 1981 in Paget, Bermuda. She moved to New York City at twenty-two and soon established herself as an inventive singer-songwriter. In 2005, Mason launched an independent music showcase entitled The Local Epiphany, which featured several up-and-coming NYC music acts. The showcase soon gained significant local popularity, as it charged no cover and offered patrons free beer. Mason claims to dislike genres, but has referred to her music as Epiphany Rock, which places great ...

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Epiphany: Encyclopedia - La Befana

La Befana is a friendly character in Italian folklore, similar to Santa Claus. Her name derives from the festival of Epiphany and means "giver of gifts", and she visits all the children of Italy on the night of 5 January / 6 January to fill their shoes with candy if they are good or a lump of coal if they are bad. The child's family will always leave a plate of broccoli and spicy sausage plus a small glass of wine for Befana. She is usually portrayed as an old lady, riding a broomstick through the air. Unlike a witch though, she is often smiling and she has a ...

Epiphany: Encyclopedia - Vision religion

In religion, visions comprise inspirational renderings, generally of a future state and/or of a mythical being, and are believed (by followers of the religion) to come from a deity, directly or indirectly via prophets, and serve to inspire or prod believers as part of a revelation or an epiphany. Many mystics take the word vision to be synonymous with apparition. For religious visions as a literary form, s ...

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Epiphany: Encyclopedia - Candlemas

Candlemas is the last festival in the Christian year that is dated by reference to Christmas; subsequent holidays are calculated with reference to Easter, so Candlemas marks the end of the Christmas and Epiphany season. "Down with the rosemary, and so Down with the bays and misletoe ; Down with the holly, ivy, all, Wherewith ye dress'd the Christmas Hall" — Robert Herrick (1591-1674), "Ceremony upon Candlemas Eve" Candlemas - ...

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Epiphany: Encyclopedia - Adoration of the Magi

The Adoration of the Magi is the name traditionally given to a Christian religious scene in which the three Magi, almost always represented as kings, having found Jesus by following a star, lay before him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh: in the church calendar, this event is commemorated as the Feast of the Epiphany. Christian iconography has considerably expanded the bare account given in the second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew (2:1-11) and used it to press the point that Jesus was ...

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Epiphany: Encyclopedia - Twelve Days of Christmas

The Twelve Days of Christmas and the associated evenings of those twelve days (Twelve-tide), are the festive days from the evening after Christmas day (December 25) through Epiphany on (January 6). December 26 (Boxing Day) is the first day of Christmas, the December 27 is the second day of Christmas, and so on until January 6 which is the 12th day of Christmas. Christmas day, December 25, is therefore not one of the twelve days of Christmas. The associated evenings of the twelve days begin on the evening before the specified day. Thus, the first ...

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Epiphany: Encyclopedia - Calcio Fiorentino

Calcio Fiorentino was an early form of football that originated in 16th century Italy. The Piazza della Novere of Florence is the cradle of this sport, that became known as giuoco del calcio fiorentino ("Florentin kick game") or simply calcio ("kick"). The official rules of calcio were published for the first time in 1580 by a certain Giovanni Bardi. Just like Roman harpastum, it was played in teams of 27, using both feet and hands. Goals could be scored by throwing the ball over a designated spot on the perimeter ...

Epiphany: Encyclopedia - Holy Day of Obligation

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