I’ve looked down my nose
on those churches that do not celebrate feasts on their proper God-ordained
dates. coughRomanscough But today’s date of the Feast of the
Epiphany on a Monday is awkward for my small parish. We wanted to celebrate the 2nd Sunday after
Christmas as those do not come around every year. We knew that almost no one would come on a cold Monday night.
(And it is indeed bitter out there
by South Texas standards.)
Celebrating it next Sunday would be a bit of a stretch and would cause
us to bypass the 1st Sunday after Epiphany.
So what the Rector
decided is to celebrate the Epiphany during our regular Wednesday night
service. And that seems sensible
to me as well. Some do not like
octaves. But one advantage of them
is that one can celebrate a major feast for a week. Or at least that’s our excuse.
If we were a larger
parish, I would have preferred today.
But we are not. It’s better
to do it when a few more are likely to come.
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