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Today, we celebrate the Feast of Epiphany, sometimes called “Little Christmas,” the “Twelfth Night,” or the “Feast of the Three Kings.”
In the Gospel passage we have today from St. Matthew (2: 1-12), we hear about some visitors from the East who followed a star to visit what they called the “newborn King of the Jews.”
After meeting with King Herod to see if he knew anything about the location of a newborn king, we read, “After their audience with the King they set out. And behold, the star that they had seen at its rising preceded them, until it came and stopped over the place where the child was. They were overjoyed at seeing the star, and on entering the house they saw the child with Mary his mother. They prostrated themselves and did him homage. Then they opened their treasures and offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed for their country by another way” (Mt 2: 9-12).
Through the ages, theologians have taught that the gifts that the magi brought symbolize various elements of Jesus: gold for his kingship; frankincense for his divinity; and myrrh for his eventual death by capital punishment.
Obviously, Jesus does not want or need any such gifts. However, he does ask us for one gift, and that is the gift of our love. How do we show our love for Jesus?
