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| Wednesday, 04 January 2012 10:52 |
Epiphany is a strange- sounding Greek word to explain an even stranger experience. A "manifestation"; or a coming to a deeper understanding of the essence of something, are a couple of the ways the word is defined. The magi-astrologers saw a child, but something more. They were searching for meaning…they looked deeper and they found more than they were expecting. They had followed the light of a star and then were filled with the light of new understanding and became light for others. Current astrologers looking at the Mayan calendar talk about the end of an era for some, the end of the world for others, and for still others, the birth of a more compassionate humanity. Today’s feast might help them to a true epiphany where the meaning of life is not found in the stars, but rather in humanity already transformed by the coming of Christ. The ancient astrologers followed a star and it led them to look down into the eyes of a child and discover a great mystery of divinity present there. If each of us would just lower our eyes from the stars and gaze more deeply into the eyes of others, maybe we too would discover what we seek. Emmanuel, God with us, God with all of us. Fr. Joseph Jablonski, MSC |
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