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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] This article was prepared with editorial assistance from ChatGPT under the Lawnmower Rule: the tool remained ministerial rather than agentic and idolatrous. Its author is accountable for every sentence unless specifically attributed to outside sources. 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 scri...