May the Lord’s choicest blessing come upon every person and family in our parish for the New Year 2022!

Lovers of carols and holiday parties know that this season of Christmas has 12 days, packed with golden rings, calling birds, and various kinds of gentry, musicians, and domestic workers. Do the math, and you will see why shopping malls, newspapers, television networks, and other cultural fortresses annually deliver some kind of "Twelve Days of Christmas" blitz, beginning on December 13. (December 25 minus 12 Days = December 13.) The problem is that, for centuries, church calendars in the East and the West have agreed that there are 12 days of Christmas, beginning on Christmas Day and ending on January 6.

The 12 days of Christmas end with the Feast of Epiphany, also called "The Adoration of the Magi" or "The Manifestation of God." Celebrated on January 6, it is known as the day of the Three Kings, the Wise Men, or Magi. Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar were the kings who saw the star over Bethlehem when Christ was born and followed it to find the Christ Child. They brought Him gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

This is the Feast when Christ revealed Himself to the whole world as the God from God and Light from Light. We have our faith in Him, and we must, in turn, evangelize the world by proclaiming with our mouths, our lives, and our good works that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God.