Epiphany celebrates God showing himself to the world in Jesus. Christians keep it on 6 January. In the West it recalls above all the wise men who came from the East to worship the child (Matthew 2:1–12). In the East it is Theophany, the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan. Old tradition joins the wedding at Cana to both. At the Epiphany the Church celebrates a God who lets himself be found, and lets strangers from far away find him.…

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