Preparation for Lent

Today is the forth Sunday in Ordinary time. Wednesday of this week is Ash Wednesday which marks the beginning of the penitential season of Lent. The forty day period before Easter in which we accompany Jesus, through the desert and, in His temptations by the devil. The Church devotes February to meditation on the Lord’s passion.

Epiphany, Baptism, Cana, Transfiguration

The Solemnity of the Epiphany, a word which means manifestation, the manifestation of Christ’s divinity to the Gentiles. It is by way of the Magi, the three kings who travelled to Jerusalem and Bethlehem, drawn by light of the star. They came from the East. They said: “We saw His star and its rising.” Also the divinity of Christ will be manifested at the start of his public ministry, at his baptism which we celebrate on Monday, at his first miracle at the wedding Feast of Cana in the changing of water into wine and toward the end on the Mount of the Transfiguration with the disciples Peter, James and John where the voice from the cloud was heard to say, as was heard also at Jesus’ baptism, “Thou art my Beloved Son, in thee I am well pleased.” “Listen to him.”