This year, we are happy to celebrate Epiphany on a Sunday, which by calendric niceties coincides with real Epiphany, January 6. There is no need to scramble our calendar or to confuse our identity by transferring Epiphany.
Traditionally, for Twelfth Night, Epiphany, Holy Church sings an antiphon about not just one manifestation (Greek epipháneia) of Our Lord’s divinity but rather three. First, we know Christ to be divine through the adoration of angels, shepherds and Magi. Next, at His baptism by John in the Jordan the Father’s voice was heard. Later, Our Divine Lord miraculously changed water into wine at the wedding at Cana. Around Epiphany we liturgically tease these mysteries apart, even as we hold them together in their essential unity: Christ is revealed not as man merely; He is also God.
