“Araw ng Tatlong Hari” or “Feast of the Three Kings” rekindles old questions, the column “Epiphany question” (Inquirer, 1/5/13) noted. Today’s dictators replay Herod’s bid to scrub any threat to their power.
The story is told about a young priest who, on his first sacerdotal anniversary, told his parishioners that the first person who came to him for confession in the parish was someone involved in an adulterous relationship. Later, the town mayor, who arrived late and was unaware of what had been said earlier, proudly revealed to everyone: “I have the distinct honor to be the very first person to go to confession to Father when he first arrived here!”
“Araw ng Tatlong Hari,” or Feast of the Three Kings, is marked here on the first Sunday of the New Year. Liturgically, this is known as Epiphany, which translates into the revelation of God the Son as a baby laid on a manger.
