Friends, we come to the wonderful Feast of the Epiphany and the great account in the Gospel of Matthew of the journey of the three magi. This marvelous, puzzling story, which has so beguiled the poets, artists, and preachers over the centuries, bears a very profound theological truth, and it has to do with the relationship of the national and the transnational.
Mass Readings
- Reading 1 — Is 60:1-6
- Psalm — Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-11, 12-13.
- Reading 2 — Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6
- Gospel — Mt 2:1-12