Tag: epiphany
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Winter Light
My January column from the Christian Courier. ____________________ As this column appears in your mailbox we are in the season of Epiphany—in the midst of the church’s celebration of light and the one who is the light of the world. The texts that echo in our ears and minds are those that invite: “Arise, shine,…
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Baptism of Jesus – the water of Jordan as blessing – from an Armenian liturgy for Epiphany
From a 1905, Armenian liturgy, for the blessing of water in Epiphany; “And now we pray thee, Lord who lovest mankind, send thy holy Spirit from above into this water. Bless and hallow it, and endue it with the grace of the Jordan. And make it a fountain of blessing, and a gift of incorruptibility;…
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