Parishioners, friends, and neighbors of all ages are invited to celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany at our Epiphany celebration on Sunday, January 5, at 5:30 p.m.

In addition to a brief, informal, family-friendly service in the style of our regular Wednesday evening prayers, you can expect royal visitors, King cake, and hot cider around the new fire of Epiphany, which will be kindled outdoors immediately after the service.

Epiphany recalls the revelation of Jesus’s divine glory to mysterious visitors from “the East,” those foreign travelers variously known as the wise men, the three kings, or the magi. In keeping with the tradition that their journey might have taken twelve days from the appearance of the star at Jesus’s birth, Epiphany is always the 6th of January, and marks the end of the Christmas season. In many churches, its observance is allowed to supplant the Second Sunday of Christmas (which can only fall on January 2, 3, 4, or 5 – too early!) or the Feast of the Baptism of our Lord (which is always the first Sunday after the 6th – too late!). This year at St. Paul’s, we’re only cheating by a few hours, celebrating Epiphany in the evening on the 5th. At Sunday morning’s services we’ll keep the Second Sunday of Christmas so we don’t miss the Gospel story of the time that Mary, Joseph, and the baby Jesus spent as refugees in Egypt.