Celebrating Epiphany?

[Rawb]

I guess this goes here, it’s a family celebration really.

Anybody celebrating Epiphany? How? I like hearing how other people celebrate.

We’ll be having soup for dinner, because I’m cold, and a king’s cake for dessert. I’m going to tell my parents that the noodles in the soup represent the gold, the meatballs the frankincense (they look sort of similar…) and the spices the myrrh. The king cake is going to be a yellow bundt, so it will look sort of like a crown, with the traditional yellow, purple, and green sprinkles. Tonight I’ll start taking down the Christmas decorations.

Anyone else doing anything?

 

[whatevergirl]

I guess this goes here, it’s a family celebration really.

Anybody celebrating Epiphany? How? I like hearing how other people celebrate.

We’ll be having soup for dinner, because I’m cold, and a king’s cake for dessert. I’m going to tell my parents that the noodles in the soup represent the gold, the meatballs the frankincense (they look sort of similar…) and the spices the myrrh. The king cake is going to be a yellow bundt, so it will look sort of like a crown, with the traditional yellow, purple, and green sprinkles. Tonight I’ll start taking down the Christmas decorations.

Anyone else doing anything?

We had a special dinner together, but next year, maybe I will try your king’s cake idea. That sounds great! We still have our decorations up too…just can’t seem to let go!

 

[puzzleannie]

Tres Reyes celebration at the monastery lots of friends, supporters, oblates and generally good people

 

[samcarter14]

DH had to work today, so our family celebration was on sunday. The kids got their presents (we only do small stockings on Christmas Day), and DH and I exchanged presents. We went out to eat and I got to buy a new pair of jeans for my present.

We had a turkey dinner, and cheesecake for dessert. Tonight we went to liturgy (Holy Day of Obligation in the Eastern Church). Got our holy water for the year, used what was left from last Theophany to “bless” the live Christmas tree we planted today.

 

[dconklin]

I run the faith formation dept at my parish and we put on an epiphany celebration each year with the help or out Parish Life Commission and the K of C - cooking dinner. We have crafts for the kids like decorating crowns and have a station where we can each write down our gift to Jesus, roll it up and tie it with ribbon. After hearing the Gospel narrative, one of the families gets up to share their tradition. We all then process from the Parish Life Center to the Church to place our gifts in a basket before a living Holy Family - singing appropriate songs. Last year the baby Jesus had hick-ups. Then as we all leave church, each family is given a lit votive candle and is instructed to drive home a different way. Once we are home, we are to relight the candle and bless each room of the house.