While for most Americans, the holiday season closes out with the New Year, many other cultures continue celebrating through the first week of January. Three Kings Day, or Epiphany, is celebrated ...
Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Part of the papal Mass for Epiphany, after the proclamation of the Gospel, was the announcement by a deacon of the dates of “moveable feasts” in the Catholic Church ...
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For those who celebrate the Epiphany — the celebration of the Twelfth Night after Christmas — on Jan. 6, you may look forward to putting your shoes outside your door for gifts, watching annual parades ...
Many Catholic parishes will give their parishioners ... and fidelity to Jesus Christ and his Church. The feast of the Epiphany is even older than the feast of Christmas and enjoys its own season ...
Over time, Christian denominations developed a different attitude towards the feast of Epiphany. The Orthodox Church connects it primarily with the baptism of Christ, and the Catholic Church ...
Many Catholic parishes will give their parishioners a piece of chalk, a small bottle of holy water, and the words for the house blessing so that each family can bless their home. Epiphany ...