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Epiphany Ideas...
What are your traditions? Looking for ideas? Anything new to share?
I so enjoy the celebration of Epiphany - the meaning and symbolism of the manifestation.
The old threads are full of great ideas and resources.
Epiphany
Epiphany ideas?
Epiphany Picture Books
Letters on the doorpost
Crown Cakes
King Cake recipes
Three Wise Men Question
Planning an Epiphany party
Epiphany
The symbols associated with it are really lovely like stars or crowns, not to mention the gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. We like to burn frankincense and myrrh incense through the Christmas season and especially at Epiphany. I have been intending to make some paper stars. Pinned several ideas for those on the 4 Real Pinterest board. There are also some cute crown ideas there.
Before Christmas I saw these great star lights at Ikea
but didn't get any. Later they were sold out - now I'm bummed as I though they would be great for Epiphany decor. But I did find this tutorial for a paper star lantern.
They are pretty and we could make these instead. Next year I want to make sure I get the lights at IKEA!
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I just wrote about our family's traditions at Catholic Culture. I won't be attending at my brother's on Sunday, but we will use the blessed chalk and blessing for our own home.
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We do the chalk blessing and have a nice dinner with some special treat -- a King Cake if I can pull myself together to make it, but always something special. I have a Three Kings plate someone gave us years ago, so that always goes on the table. Lots of gold -- tablecloth, candles, etc. Our centerpiece will be our little glass Nativity set with the Three Kings in attendance -- right now they and the Holy Family are at opposite ends of the dining-room table.
Epiphany is also my oldest daughter's birthday, so the two always get melded in our family party. Obviously she gets gifts, and I have some little goodies set aside for the other kids as well, to be on the breakfast table when they get up.
MaryM, those stars are really pretty. Anything we do this year, beyond the decorations we already have up, will have to be totally homemade, as we're on a January spending freeze . . . as cold as it is outside today, maybe this is a good time to be crafty (as we usually aren't) indoors.
Just listening to Christmas music this morning, after having pancakes on the table with the poinsettia tablecloth -- a CONTINUED Merry Christmas to all!
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A day late...
"The Journey of the Magi" by T. S. Eliot
Recorded reading by Eliot
'A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey:
The ways deep and the weather sharp,
The very dead of winter.'
And the camels galled, sorefooted, refractory,
Lying down in the melting snow.
There were times we regretted
The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,
And the silken girls bringing sherbet.
Then the camel men cursing and grumbling
and running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly
And the villages dirty and charging high prices:
A hard time we had of it.
At the end we preferred to travel all night,
Sleeping in snatches,
With the voices singing in our ears, saying
That this was all folly.
Then at dawn we came down to a temperate valley,
Wet, below the snow line, smelling of vegetation;
With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness,
And three trees on the low sky,
And an old white horse galloped away in the meadow.
Then we came to a tavern with vine-leaves over the lintel,
Six hands at an open door dicing for pieces of silver,
And feet kiking the empty wine-skins.
But there was no information, and so we continued
And arriving at evening, not a moment too soon
Finding the place; it was (you might say) satisfactory.
All this was a long time ago, I remember,
And I would do it again, but set down
This set down
This: were we led all that way for
Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly
We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death,
But had thought they were different; this Birth was
Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.
We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,
But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad of another death.
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Yes, VERY early, I know...but you snooze, you lose. Don't want to end up like I did last year. 
MaryM wrote:
Before Christmas I saw these great star lights at Ikea
but didn't get any. Later they were sold out - now I'm bummed as I though they would be great for Epiphany decor.
Next year I want to make sure I get the lights at IKEA!
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So I see these are now available again for 2014. I am going asap this year so I don't miss out!!
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