On Sunday we will hear the story of the Magi from Matthew’s gospel. It’s often read around January 6th, or a holy day, that in Eastern Christianity, rivals Christmas as a day of celebration and significance. In some traditions it is known as Three Kings Day. We have it on our calendars as the Feast of the Epiphany. The word epiphany simply means appearing or appearance, or to make manifest, or to reveal. So, this particular day and season of the Christian year is the time when the Church recalls the “concrete, physical, in the flesh way in which Jesus reveals God to all of humanity.” Jesus is an epiphany, a manifestation, a revelation of the glory of God. Jesus is the Light of God shining in the darkness – a light so bright the darkness cannot overcome it, a glorious light that draws Wise Men and others to the brightness of its dawn. The season of Epiphany asks us then to consider how God has revealed God’s self, made God’s self known to us in Jesus, and what that revelation, that manifestation means for us as his followers and friends? Having seen the glorious presence of God in Christ, having seen the light of God’s new day dawning on the horizon, how are we called to live differently? How are we called now to be instruments of the revelation of God, instruments of the light who make the love and light of Christ manifest in the world?