{"id":5853,"date":"2022-01-17T05:49:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T05:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/?p=5853"},"modified":"2022-01-17T11:49:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T11:49:09","slug":"epiphany-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/epiphany-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Epiphany"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-kyil3gvb-7935ab479e4379a32cb76b8a18f6b974 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Epiphany<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Happy Holiday!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>January 17, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was baptized in the River Jordan by John the Baptist on January 19. The festival which is kept on this day is called in the tongue of the Greeks \u201cEpiphany\u201d which is, being interpreted, \u201cthe appearance of the Godhead,\u201d because on this day appeared the mystery of the Holy Trinity&#8211;the Father, saying from heaven, \u201cThis is my Son Whom I love, in Whom I am well pleased. \u00a0Hear Him.\u201d the Son was standing in the Jordan, and the Holy Spirit, in the form of a dove, was standing on Him, even as John the Baptist was a witness of this, saying, \u201cOur Lord Christ, having been baptized, went up out of the water; and straightway the heavens were rent, and the Holy Spirit came down upon Him like a dove. \u00a0And a voice came from heaven, saying, this is My Son Whom I love, with Whom I am well pleased. \u00a0Hear Him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the blessed day our Lord revealed Himself, (now, for a period of thirty years He had not revealed Himself to anyone), and on this day He revealed Himself to the children of Israel. \u00a0And John the Evangelist was a witness, and John the Baptist was a witness to Him before the people, and he openly said unto them, \u201cThis is the Lamb of God Who take away the sin of the world.\u201d\u00a0 His pronouncement I do not understand, and only that He appeared unto Israel, and because of this I came out to baptize Him with water. \u00a0And at this festival the glory of Christ appeared, as that of the Son of God, and His own glory as the Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world. \u00a0Because of this the festival this day is a great festival among all Christian peoples, and they cleanse themselves with holy water in imitation of the Baptism of our Lord Christ; and they received during this festival remission of their sins, provided that they continue in the purity which they have received.\u00a0 Therefore it is meet for us to keep, and serve, and glorify the abundant grace of our God and Redeemer Jesus Christ, Who became man for our sakes, and delivered us from our sins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source: The Ethiopian Synaxarium <\/strong><strong>page <\/strong><strong>276<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was baptized in the River Jordan by John the Baptist on January 19. The festival which is kept on this day is called in the tongue of the Greeks \u201cEpiphany\u201d which is, being interpreted, \u201cthe appearance of the God\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5853"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5860,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853\/revisions\/5860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}