The passage opens again with the words, “The next day…”. John the Baptist is there with two of his own disciples. Just then Jesus walked by. This is a common feature of Jesus in the Gospel and it reminds us that Jesus walks by so many times in our ordinary day.

In the Gospel, two of Jesus’s disciples, one of whom was Andrew, are invited by Jesus to “Come and you will see”. They stayed with Jesus the entire day. What a gift! Andrew used his gift immediately and ran to find his brother, Simon, and brought him to Jesus. We all know the results of what happened to Peter! Rather effective evangelization.

There are epiphanies in all of our lives; how do we recognize and honor them?

Gospel: Matthew 2: 1–12
Where is the newborn King of the Jews?

Today we celebrate the second of four great manifestations of God in our midst.  The word epiphany comes from Greek and it means a ‘showing’ or ‘manifestation’. 

The Holy Family was a typical and observant Hebrew family / The importance of unselfishness in families and in the Kingdom

Gospel: Luke 2: 22–40
The favor of God was upon him