1st Sunday After New Year, January 2016 (Epiphany or Three Kings' Day)

Hello! and happy Epiphany or Three Kings' Day to all of us, GUYS.  For our first-thing-first this 1st Sunday after the New Year:

THE GOOD NEWS (03 January 2016)

"Arise, shine, for your light has come.

The Glory of YAHWEH rises upon you.

Night still covers the earth

and gloomy clouds veil the peoples,

but YAHWEH now rises

and over you HIS glory appears.

The Temple Of Jerusalem (In JESUS Time)

Nations will come to your light

and kings to the brightness of your dawn.

Lift up your eyes round about and see:

they are all gathered and come to you,

your sons from afar,

your daughters tenderly carried.

This sight will make your face radiant,

your heart throbbing and full;

the riches of the sea will be turned to you,

the wealth of the nations will come to you.

A flood of camels will cover you,

caravans from Midian and Ephah.

Those from Sheba will come,

bringing with them gold and incense,

all singing in praise of YAHWEH."

- Isaiah 60:1-6

The Three Kings (Magi)

(As the prophet looks at the humble Jerusalem which is barely rising from its ruins, he suddenly has a vision of the future of Jerusalem, filled with the LORD's riches, the city that will be the bride of the LORD. 

There all the aspirations of a humanity purified and gathered in the light of GOD will be achieved.  There all people will delight in the fullness everything they ever longed for.

These promises point to the goals on which the Church must focus.  It is in the Church that all the real riches of humanity - faith, understanding, community - are and must be gathered.)