Epiphany

By tradition, a crucifix is cast into the waters of a lake or river, and it is believed that the person who retrieves it will be freed from evil spirits and ...

A young pilgrim holds the cross after it was thrown by an Orthodox priest into the water, during an epiphany ceremony to bless the sea, on the southeast resort of Ayia Napa, Cyprus. In the small mountain city of Kalofer in central Bulgaria the ritual lasts longer, as nearly a hundred men dressed in traditional white embroidered shirts wade into the Tundzha River to perform a slow men's dance. A pilgrim holds up the cross after it was thrown by an Orthodox priest into the water, during an epiphany ceremony to bless the sea, on the southeast resort of Ayia Napa, Cyprus.

Greece and Hellenes around the world celebrated Epiphany on Friday, one of Christianity's most important feasts. In the Orthodox Christian tradition, ...

Follow GR on [Google News ](https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqLQgKIidDQklTRndnTWFoTUtFV2R5WldWcmNtVndiM0owWlhJdVkyOXRLQUFQAQ)and [subscribe here ](https://greekreporter.com/about/newsletter/)to our daily email! Celebrating the Epiphany in the insular bastion of Hellenism in the Aegean, the island of Lemnos, I wish everyone enlightenment.” Twenty people promptly jumped into the frigid waters to retrieve it. Kadıköy Metropolitan Emmanuel Adamakis conducted the service and prayers were said at the ceremony, which started at 9 a.m. Leader of the opposition Alexis Tsipras was also in attendance. In a highly symbolic visit to an island where its sovereignty is challenged by Turkey, Mistotakis said that “Greece does not accept suggestions on how to assert its sovereign rights.”

Scene of the Epiphany from a Romanian proskynetarion. “The journey of the Magi into the unknown is a potent parable of life.” ... The feast of the Epiphany ...

And the outcome of their faith was change. For us in the West, the Epiphany has always focussed on the revelation of Christ to the Magi, the Wise Men (sometimes referred to as The Three Kings), from the East. And notice, the flesh in question is not some “souped up” sleek, successful version of humanity, but the familiar, fragile, frail, failing flesh, which is us.

An epiphany is an “aha” moment, a moment of clarity, when one intuitively sees the true nature or meaning of something. It is a sudden revelation or ...

Sadly, our Christian America is split on the epiphany of Jan 6. “The Epiphany — the awakening — is what matters, right? Perhaps the shock of the cold water will awaken participants to the malignant dangers of our errant human nature. The Feast of the Epiphany points to a great truth for every living human being. Jesus points to the Kingdom of God within us all, a call to care for creation and one another. An epiphany is an “aha” moment, a moment of clarity, when one intuitively sees the true nature or meaning of something.

The celebration of Epiphany began on Friday morning in the garden of the Fener Greek Patriarchate in Istanbul. According to Christian belief, a service is.

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Today, much of the Christian church will celebrate Epiphany (“manifestation,”) which commemorates when the incarnation of God in Christ Jesus is made known ...

Consider what gifts we can — and will — offer to Christ today and in this new year! Are we willing to take the first step — or the next step — on that sacred pilgrimage? What else but unbridled love could move them to feel such pure joy at the sight of a child? The magi in the gospel story are indeed wise, for they recognize the star and walk in its light. A traditional reading for Epiphany is Matthew 2:1-12, the story of the magi — the first gentiles to receive this divine revelation. Some were magicians — mediators between humans and the higher powers — and would attempt to use their own rituals and methods to manipulate events.

In the presence of the mayor of Athens, Kostas Bakoyannis, who was accompanied by one of his children, and the Deputy Minister of Education, Angelos Syrigos ...

['Ta Fota': One of Greece’s holiest and most sacred celebrations](https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/01/06/ta-fota-and-most-sacred-celebrations/). [Panagiotis Koufalexis](https://www.protothema.gr/greece/article/1325805/theofania-me-labrotita-o-agiasmos-ton-udaton-stin-athina/). In the presence of the mayor of Athens, Kostas Bakoyannis, who was accompanied by one of his children, and the Deputy Minister of Education, Angelos Syrigos, the Great Blessing Of Water on Epiphany was held in the centre of Athens.

There is a pilgrim spirit that requires no road, no epic quest, no distant shrine. There is a pilgrimage that stands still.

We are sent forth right where we are—sent forth as pilgrims, to go home while staying at home, to find the things that we might have lost or might not yet have found, and that lead on to the highest home of all. It is a powerful mystery, and it is the powerful mystery of pilgrimage—a mystery which can take us where we belong even when we do not necessarily take the road. The pilgrimage of standing still, where the holy comes to us instead of us coming to them, are gifts of grace, reminds us that we are going somewhere spiritually even if we are not going anywhere physically—that we are going back to some invisible mystery from whence we came. In staying where we are, let us all share in the same experience of coming home, of satisfaction, that the Magi had in their own way so long ago. And it is this pilgrimage—the pilgrimage of staying in the same place—that can be the most fulfilling. Their discovery is the joy of pilgrimage as they evoke the joy that we are not at home yet, and that we can be heading for home even within our homes. This is part of the paradox of the pilgrim, that makes him light on a heavy road—to find joy in the weary way. And such instances, such touchstones, form the backbone of a joyful pilgrimage. But no matter where we are, or where we are heading, or where we are staying, we are all going somewhere—and the idea of a pilgrimage, as a journey, necessarily involves the idea of coming home, of a final destination. But part of the whole idea, the whole purpose, of a pilgrimage, are those moments when we come toward the things we have seen but not observed and gain an understanding of them that goes beyond the pleasure of wonder. But the idea, or the essence, of the pilgrimage of staying in place entails the homecoming of holy things that have long lain hidden in plain sight before us, even in our own hearts. And for many, that will mean preparing for the epiphanies—the apocalypses, the revelations—that can come suddenly to us in the very place we live, instead of the one afforded to the three Kings when they arrived in faraway Bethlehem to something that, in T.