Epiphany Season – Community of Christ Our Hope

The Epiphanytide tradition of chalking the door involves writing C✝M✝B (representing the names of the Three Wise Men as well as the Christian prayer *Christus mansionem benedicat*) with the year flanking both sides on one’s door, as seen here on an apartment door in the Midwestern US.

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Many Christian churches observe the Epiphany season, also known as Epiphany tide or the time of Sundays After Epiphany, which comes right after the Christmas season. Epiphany Day marks the start of it, and it finishes at varied times determined by those denominations. White and green are the traditional liturgical colours for the Epiphany season and day, respectively. [1]

Western Christianity Roman Rite Ordinary Form of Catholicism

The period following Epiphany is considered a part of the Christmas season by the Roman Catholic Church’s Ordinary Form. Christmas ends with the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, which is traditionally observed on the Sunday following Epiphany. Despite the fact that Epiphany is not a specific season, the Ordinary Form does include certain Mass collects that are used from Epiphany on. [2] Due to the fact that Epiphany is frequently moved to the Sunday between January 2 and January 8 inclusive, the time between Epiphany Sunday and the Sunday of the Baptism of the Lord is de facto a whole octave. Ordinary Time comes immediately after the Christmas season.

Exceptional Form

Epiphany is observed with a de facto octave from January 6 to the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord on January 13, even though the octave was nominally removed in the calendar reforms of 1955, in traditionalist Catholic communities that use the General Roman Calendar of 1960 as part of the Extraordinary Form authorised by Summorum Pontificum. The following Sundays are referred to as “Sundays after Epiphany” or “Time after Epiphany” until the beginning of Shrovetide. [3]

Moravianism

In the Moravian Church, the Epiphany season runs until the Sunday before Ash Wednesday.[5] While white is the liturgical colour used for the Feast of the Epiphany itself, the Sundays during the rest of the season use green.[5]

Lutheranism

In Lutheranism, Epiphany tide runs from Epiphany Day until Septuagesima Sunday—three Sundays before Shrove Tuesday— (as with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark),[6] or from Epiphany Day until the day before Ash Wednesday (as with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America).[7][8]

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Epiphany singing, door chalking, and inviting the pastor to bless the home are all common Epiphany tide traditions.[1] “An Epiphany Blessing of Homes and Chalking the Door”. Discipleship Ministries. 2007. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
The Roman Missal (3rd ed.). New Jersey: Catholic Book Publishing. 2011. pp. 52–63.
Lefebvre, Dom Gaspare (1999). The Saint Andrew Daily Missal. St. Bonaventure Publications. p. IX, 125.
“Lectionary” (PDF). Moravian Church. 2012. p. 2.
“Lectionary” (PDF). Moravian Church. 2012. p. 2.
Epiphany”. Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
“Epiphany”. Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. Archived from the original on May 28, 2013.
“Epiphany”. BBC. October 7, 2011. Retrieved February 7, 2021. For many Protestant church traditions, the season of Epiphany extends from 6 January until Ash Wednesday, which begins the season of Lent leading to Easter.)