Epiphany is a season of light. It begins in midwinter, just as daylight begins to lengthen. It commemorates the bright star that led the magi to the Christ child, and it celebrates God’s manifestation in moments of Jesus’s life—his baptism, his first sign at Cana, his Transfiguration.
God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. He is an eternal fellowship of light, eternal Source, eternal Radiance, and eternal Dispersion who illumines the Source and Radiance. The Father shines as the Light who makes the Son radiant in the Spirit. The Triune communion is eternal, mutual illumination. By the incarnation, the Sunrise from on high visits us, and shines through flesh, so all flesh sees it together.
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