And now, Happy Feast of the Epiphany!

Technically this feast was celebrated at the Sunday Mass this last Sunday.  It's most famous part being the revealing of Christ to the Magi.  This is one of those times wherein being part of a more traditional Catholic parish would be wonderful, as such celebrations were said to be marked with blessings of gold, frankincense, and myrrh and similar traditional trappings.  How cool is that?  For our family's part, we've wondered how to go about marking this day special.  For most of our society, the Holy Season of _______mas begins on the Feast of Black Friday, and ends when TBS stops its 24 hour marathon of A Christmas Story.  This year we thought we would save the Christmas cards for the boys - each with a little gift inside - for today.  Next year, who knows?  It's one of those things wherein Catholics live in a decidedly secular culture, one that is not aided by many Protestant, and certainly post-Protestant denominations whose historical knowledge tends to extend all the way back to the Superbowl XXXI party.  So it isn't as if there is a horde of Catholics who follow the same traditions.  They seem to be pretty much in the same boat, trying to eke out some traditions (if any) in the cultural soup of our commercialized and secularized nation.  Therefore it's pretty much make it up as you go.   So we'll see what happens.  Anyone with any information or suggestions, and I'd sure be all ears.