JESUS IS OUR STAR
Epiphany Sunday – January 07, 2017 – 10:30 AM Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Rev. David Justin Lynch Isaiah 60:1-6 Psalm 72:1-2;7-8;10-13 Ephesians 3:2-3A;5-6 Matthew 2:1-12 + In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. My mother was an actress. She tried, but failed, to get me to follow in her footsteps. But I loved the theater, so I worked behind the scenes as a lighting technician, designing the lighting for productions, setting up the lights, and operating them during the show. Lighting is a very necessary part of theater, because if the theater is dark, you can’t see the actors. One of my mother’s favorite sayings was a quote from Shakespeare, “All the world is a stage.” We are characters playing a role, living out a plot, and speaking lines in the drama that is life itself. Just as in the theater proper, lights are important in life. Lights fulfil many functions. They warn, like the lights on tall buildings that tell airplane