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THE EPIPHANY OF OUR LORD - 6 JANUARY

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 6th of January THE EPIPHANY OF OUR LORD  ➡️ Feasts, Solemnities, and Liturgical Seasons Epiphany, which in the original Greek signifies appearance or manifestation, as St Austin [Augustine] observes, (1) is a festival principally solemnised in honour of the discovery Jesus Christ made of himself to the Magi, or wise men; who, soon after his birth, by a particular inspiration of Almighty God, came to adore him and bring him presents. (2)...  THE DISCOVERY JESUS CHRIST MADE OF HIMSELF  [This festival] ought... to challenge a more than ordinary regard and veneration; but from none more than us Gentiles, who, in the persons of the wise men, our first fruits and forerunners, were on this day called to the faith and worship of the true God. Nothing so much illustrates this mercy as the wretched degeneracy into which the subjects of it were fallen. So great this, that there was no object so despicable as not to be ...

THE EPIPHANY OF OUR LORD - 6 JANUARY

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 6th of January WELCOME! THE EPIPHANY OF OUR LORD Epiphany, which in the original Greek signifies appearance or manifestation, as St Austin [Augustine] observes, is a festival principally solemnised in honour of the discovery Jesus Christ made of himself to the Magi, or wise men ; who, soon after his birth, by a particular inspiration of Almighty God, came to adore him and bring him presents.  VENERATION BY THE GENTILES [This festival] ought... to challenge a more than ordinary regard and veneration; but from none more than us Gentiles, who, in the persons of the wise men, our first fruits and forerunners, were on this day called to the faith and worship of the true God. Nothing so much illustrates this mercy as the wretched degeneracy into which the subjects of it were fallen. So great this, that there was no object so despicable as not to be thought worthy of divine honours; no vice so detestable as not to be enforce...