Today's Mass - The Epiphany of the Lord. Year C. 05/01/2025

The annual telling of the Epiphany story could have us take it all for granted: magi from far-away places, guided only by a star, fabulously rich and so on. However, they were gentiles, outsiders, detested by all! Yet they sought out the New-born King when King Herod’s religious advisors – who knew all the prophecies about the king being born in Bethlehem – made no move to go and see this wonderful deed of the Lord. Their gifts recognise that the Christ-Child is God (frankincense); that he is a king (gold); that he has come to die for us (myrrh).