Today is the Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord Jesus Christ, also known as the Theophany, although in the United States it will be liturgically celebrated tomorrow. The feast is historically associated with three events in the life of Christ, all concerned with revelation in one form or another: the Baptism of Christ, the Wedding at Cana, and the Visit of the Magi.
Epiphany
I heard the preacher speaking
and of miracles I heard,
the wine of revelation
from the water of our words.
I heard of men and women
in humility of ways
transfigured to the glory
of the Ancient One of Days
(first river-bathed and lustral
in the waters of the earth,
then drunken, full of Spirit,
with the Wine of heaven's birth),
of wisdom-seeking sages
who had sought the Good by star
and found it with its Mother
where the Jewish peoples are,
the True in swaddled clothing --
thus their wise philosophy
was turned, like wedding-water,
to that wine, epiphany.
