SERMON/HOMILY ON THE SOLEMNITY OF THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD YEAR B 7TH JANUARY 2024
HOMILY ON THE SOLEMNITY OF THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD, YEAR B Isaiah 60:1-6; Ps.72; Eph.3:2-3a, 5-6; Matt.2:1-12 _“Arise, shine; for your light has come_ …” (Isa.60:1) Our obligation to beam the Light of Christ! Today, we celebrate the manifestation of Jesus Christ to the world. This celebration is called Epiphany, from the greek word _Epiphanes_ . Unlike the feast of Christ’s presentation in the temple, the Epiphany was not a Jewish rite for Children. What the wise men from the East did for Jesus was not something that was usually done for every child. The act of the wise men was uniquely for Christ and was singly motivated and directed by God himself. In the action of the wise men, God himself showed that Jesus was not merely a child but the expected messiah. It is important that this manifestation was made at the birth of Christ, to show that Jesus did not become the Messiah at some point in his earthly life or after some extraordinary event in his life; Jesus was born as the Mes...