the iconoclast's descending

Epiphany on the Church's calendar. 2026 Edition Rev. Dr. Douglas Blake Olds (Ret.)  [N.B.  COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL : If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html] Gospel of Matthew 2:2 does not necessarily suggest astrology led the Magi to seek the baby Jesus on what is now known as the Feast of Epiphany . "We saw his star dawning" suggests that they had read the times foretold in scriptures and the star confirmed their inner readiness to receive the incarnated God of the Universe who is not barred from entering, challenging, and testing our recognition of God's transcendent power with the earth. The Piebald Advent is finished . ...