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The Feast of Epiphany on January 6 commemorates the coming of the Magi which reveals Christ’s mission to the world. The light of God’s salvation is revealed to all peoples in the person of Jesus, the Son of God.  Church Year Seasons

 

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TUMI Yearly Theme, 2009-10: The Wondrous Cross

picturesalon_small_wondrouscross-500TUMI's 2009-10 Annual Theme, this year we will focus on The Wondrous Cross as our primary center of reflection, devotion, discussion, and meditation. This is the organizing center of our spiritual formation and ministry programming for the 2009-10 Church Year.  Click to view our 2009-10 online TUMI Annual Index!

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Church Year Calendar 2009-10: The Wondrous Cross

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S.O.S. Saving Our Sons is a concise, informative, and compelling outline that shows how urban churches can train their members to witness effectively to Muslims in the city, especially in the African American community.

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The life we live has been described in many ways, and compared analogously to many things. Some poets, theologians, and philosophers have described life as a game, as a contest, even as a test. One of my favorite metaphors for living is seeing it as a journey, with birth as the launch of the journey, living as its substance with all its detours, changes, abrupt twists and turns. Finally, death (in the light of a such an image) is the harbor, the end, the coming into port, as it were, the finishing of the adventure. This motif has been used many times, and our living has been understood through this lens, with some insight being gained through it.

The Church Year is a journey, a deliberate participation, recitation, and embodiment of the Christ life in real time. Through its feasts, festivals, services, and meditations, we anchor our days on the events which made up the hope, manifestation, passion, death, resurrection, ascension, session, and second coming of the Christ, whom we know now to be none other than Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Mary and Joseph. Although he was born of peasant class of the lineage of David, we believe he was the incarnation of the eternal Son of God in human form. While he could be seen, heard, touched, and handled, and though indistinguishable from many of his counterparts of the time, we know that this child of Mary’s was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of her who was a virgin daughter of Israel, and became human. Thus affirms the Creed, and so is also affirmed by millions of believers who cling to him as the Savior of the world.

One of the most interesting and fascinating stories surrounding the birth and infancy of our Lord is the visit of the Magi, the signature episode for the Season of Epiphany. These pagan Magi, undoubtedly foreign and awkward to Mary and Joseph’s contemporaries, were given grace by the Lord to be aware of the birth of the King himself, and journeyed for thousands of miles to worship the Christ child and offer to him their treasures of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Our desire and passion must be that we share in their extraordinary passion and desire to see the Lord, and, like them, seek to bow down and worship in the presence of God’s anointed King.

The Magi's Quest to Find the King

Matthew’s account of the Magi (Matt. 2.1-12) is concise and clear, like that of a newspaper journalist. He begins with his summary of the key facts: “Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, [2] saying, ‘Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.’”

In these few sentences, Matthew explains the gist of the Magi’s quest, telling us when the quest occurred: “after Jesus was born in Bethlehem in the days of Herod the king,” 2.1; where they were from: “from the east,” 2.1b; where they came to: “to Jerusalem,” 2.1c; along with the nature of their inquiry: “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews?”, 2.2; as well as their mission: “For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him,” 2.2b.

Amazingly, this is all the biographical data given in regard to the “wise men;” their number, identity, backgrounds, etc. are left out of Matthew’s account. We do know, however, that they are probably Gentiles, from the east (where they saw the star of the King arise), and have traveled from there to find him and to worship him.  Read more.
 

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