The Last Sunday After The Epiphany (Quinquagesima)
The Last Sunday After The Epiphany (Quinquagesima)
O God, who before the passion of thy only-begotten Son didst reveal his glory upon the holy mount: Grant unto us that we, beholding by faith the light of his countenance, may be strengthened to bear our cross, and be changed into his likeness from glory to glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
About the Epiphany Procession
The Epiphany Procession involves two processions in one:
First, it is a physical procession of the choir through the church, beginning with the responsory sung from the Great Stairwell, and proceeding to the back of the nave, near the narthex, where more music is sung. The procession includes the journey of the three Magi (probationers from the choir school), who carry their gifts down the center aisle to the Crèche as the choir sings from the back of the nave.
Second, this service is a procession of three texts from Holy Scripture of the manifestations of Jesus as the Christ; three week’s worth of Gospel lessons are rolled into one Sunday service. And so you will first hear of the visit of the Magi (which we also heard on January 6), and then of the Baptism of our Lord (the assigned Gospel for today), and then of his first miracle at the wedding at Cana.
These manifestations and others (the Presentation and the Transfiguration among them) form a bridge that connects the dots, because they tell us who Jesus of Nazareth is. Positioned as we currently are in the liturgical year between Christmas and Lent, we are invited in this season of the Epiphany to see that the baby born in Bethlehem is indeed the promised Messiah, the Christ, the Savior of the world. The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and was full of grace and truth…and the world accepted him not.
We cannot fully understand the joy of Christmas or the depth of Good Friday without first perceiving that the little baby of whom the angels sing is the same person that changes water to wine and gives the blind their sight, is the same man who is nailed to the cross by the powers of this world, is indeed God himself.
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