THEOLOGICAL CLUE

By the Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany, as happens rather quickly in the Pentecost season, the season has pretty much lost its theological "shape" and impact; the lectionary and the lessons take over and seem to indicate that there has been a movement away from the several theological implications (the incarnation and manifestation of Jesus in the Epiphany season) to a concentration of the ethics of those who belong to the kingdom of heaven. Liturgically, the Epiphany theological frame still surrounds this Sunday and its ethical implications with the manifestation and the light of Jesus Christ in the world.

The Prayer of the Day (LBW)
The prayer looks to the Gospel for the Day, as well as the other readings, where Jesus is the supreme teacher, and suggests the basic Epip…