Introduction

Bishop Robert Barron: Epiphany from a Greek word, meaning intense appearance. For the wise men, of course, it was first the star. That was this extraordinary appearance. The point of the story is it wasn't the star that was the real epiphany. They went looking for a king and they find this little child. And you know in his famous autobiographical novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce said his vocation would be to report epiphanies when he saw them.