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On this Sunday, we get to experience something that seldom seems to happen on a Sunday.  We get to experience the Feast Day of Epiphany.  You see, the day of Epiphany is one of those fixed days in the church calendar which usually seems to fall on a week day and not so much on a Sunday.  Therefore, we rarely get this gospel reading in the Sunday lectionary.  But this year, the day of Epiphany is actually today, so we get this marvelous reading from Matthew’s gospel.  The word “Epiphany” refers to something “made manifest” or “revealed.” When you come up with a brilliant idea, you might say that you’ve had an “epiphany moment.”  Today, the word “Epiphany” communicates to us the “showing forth” or “the revelation” of Christ in the world.  Epiphany takes its themes from the journey of a group of pagan magi who left familiar territory to find the Christ child and explore this child’s authenticity for themselves.  And, as Barbara Brown Taylor says “today’s [reading] from Matthew offers a rare opportunity to rescue