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Christ the King Catholic Church
Princes Road
Eastbourne

The Holy Rood Catholic Church
Castle Drive
Pevensey Bay

St. Joachim Catholic Church
Brodrick Road
Hampden Park
Eastbourne

The Arundel and Brighton Diocesan Trust is a Registered Charity No 252878

Faith in Focus - Epiphany People
To follow the star and become Epiphany people we have to be aware of three important challenges.
Epiphany people have first to be people of faith. Imagine setting out on a journey like the wise men and not actually knowing where you are going, following only where a star leads you. Yet this is what faith demands. To be a person of faith means that we trust in God so much that we are prepared to be led, wherever God decides to take us. Being people of faith doesn’t mean having all the answers; it simply requires us to be open to God’s promptings and prepared to act when others think we are mad to do so. Faith and trust cannot be prised apart.
A second characteristic of Epiphany people is that their faith makes them want to worship. The wise men brought their gifts and worshipped the Lord. Just knowing our God should be reason enough for worship. We bring our gold (the best we can be), our frankincense (our contribution to making the world a more beautiful place) and our myrrh (our pains and our tears as well as the comforting presence we extend to others), and with these gifts of our lives we fall on our knees before the God that our faith journey leads us ever closer to.
And finally Epiphany people are people of change. The wise men didn’t simply spend the rest of their lives fawning at the crib. They left enriched by what they had seen and heard and they headed off to tell others what they had experienced. But they heeded the warning of their dream and decided to change their plans and go back home by a different route. Every encounter with our God-made-man challenges us to change. God never wants us to stay where we are; our job is to follow the star.
Epiphany reveals Jesus to all nations. His glory is seen by people from all over the known world. And these Epiphany people are people of faith, people of worship and people of change.

Word for Today

The closing of the Christmas festivities leaves us with one amazing fact: the God who is responsible for the whole of creation took our human flesh and remains for ever within our world in the person of his Son Jesus Christ. Under which star will we find him this week?

(from Matthew James Publishing)