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Several blocks and a thousand years from the city’s ritzy nightclubs and theaters, a rind of moon sweated in the sky,
The synapses between the minutes are unswimmable. An hour is thick as fudge.
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
David Sedaris
Like ad orientem prayer, Epiphany originally had a connection to the rising sun; Syrian Christians of the second century called it denho (the up-going) and connected it with Zechariah’s prophecy at the birth of John the Baptist: “And you, child . . . will go before the Lord to prepare his ways, to give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins . . . when the day shall dawn upon us from on high” (Luke 7:76a, 77–78). That Christmas itself was still practically unknown can be deduced by its absence on the preserved listings of early Christian feasts, such as those of Irenaeus, Tertullian, Epiphanius, and Clement of Alexandria (all of which include Epiphany).
The Apostasy That Wasn't
Rod Bennett
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