Happy New Year and welcome back! I hope your celebration of God’s Great Gift of Love to the world was filled with JOY.
Many will know that we’ve just concluded our celebration of the Christmas season with yesterday’s “Twelfth Day of Christmas,” also known as the Epiphany. When we think of the Epiphany we often think of the Three Kings’ visit to the Christ Child 2000+ years ago! As with all of the Church’s historical celebrations, the Epiphany is also an invitation to each of us. We are invited to follow the example of the Three Kings and let go of our own ego attachments in order to reverence the vulnerable before us in the here and now.
We are very aware that each of our children (like the Kings) have gifts that they have been given by God. Our task is to support them in developing those gifts, support them in developing open heart attitudes, and point them in the direction of Truth (the star).
Our children’s journey to the birth of God will be their own. Our task as educators of the Sacred Heart is to launch our students on this journey well by pointing them in the right direction—for we too are following that same star.
Happy Feast of the Epiphany,
Maureen Glavin, rscj
