{"id":5661,"date":"2017-01-02T17:33:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T22:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/?p=5661"},"modified":"2017-01-02T17:33:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T22:33:06","slug":"schedule-for-theophany-january-5-6-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/schedule-for-theophany-january-5-6-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Schedule for Theophany (January 5-6, 2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4187\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/theophany-500x377.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/theophany-500x377.png\" alt=\"The Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ\" width=\"500\" height=\"377\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4187\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Theophany means &#8220;the revelation or revealing of God&#8221; and happened at the Baptism of Christ. It is a great feast day in the Orthodox Church. The schedule for Theophany 2017 is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>January 5<\/strong> (Thursday) Theophany Royal Hours 9:00am<\/li>\n<li><strong>January 5<\/strong> (Thursday) Vesperal Liturgy and Blessing of the Waters 6:30pm<\/li>\n<li><strong>January 6<\/strong> (Friday) Theophany Divine Liturgy 9:30am<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>The Baptism of Christ<\/h4>\n<p>This observance commemorates Christ&#8217;s baptism by John the Forerunner in the River Jordan, and the beginning of Christ&#8217;s earthly ministry. The Feast of Theophany is the culmination of the Christmas Season, which starts on December 25 and ends on January 6. In mystic commemoration of this event, the Great Blessing of Water is performed on this day, and the holy water so blessed is used by the local priest to bless the homes of the faithful.<\/p>\n<p>The feast is called Theophany because at the baptism of Christ the Holy Trinity appeared clearly to mankind for the first time&mdash;the Father&#8217;s voice is heard from Heaven, the Son of God is incarnate and standing physically in the Jordan, and the Holy Spirit descends on Him in the form of a dove.<\/p>\n<p>This feast is also sometimes referred to as Epiphany by English-speaking Orthodox Christians, but that name more properly refers to the Western Christian feast falling on that same day and commemorating the visit of the Magi to the child Jesus. The term epiphany does appear in some of the service texts for this feast, however.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read more on the <a href=\"https:\/\/orthodoxwiki.org\/Theophany\">Orthodoxwiki website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theophany means &#8220;the revelation or revealing of God&#8221; and happened at the Baptism of Christ. It is a great feast day in the Orthodox Church. The schedule for Theophany 2017 is: January 5 (Thursday) Theophany Royal Hours 9:00am January 5 (Thursday) Vesperal Liturgy and Blessing of the Waters 6:30pm January 6 (Friday) Theophany Divine Liturgy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}