Today, twelve days after Christmas, we conclude this wonderful time with the Feast of the Epiphany.
Epiphany is the feast of Christian universalism. The Gospel illustrates this Revelation through the story of the three wise men, who travelled from far away to visit Jesus, following a bright star. Jesus was born in a very precise place in Palestine called Bethlehem. It is a town well known to the people of Israel. The message that the child brings is the good news about Life, not only for one privileged people, but for all the peoples of the world.
In the Gospel of Matthew, we see that the wise men come from far distant lands, this shows a universal concern for the human race; the Lord Jesus, the newborn child is not private property or the concern of only one culture or one race, but he is for everyone.
For Jesus there is no stranger among us, we are all equally beloved children of God. All of us are visited and loved on this feast of the Epiphany, with our cultural, racial and personal differences, we all belong to one family with only one father, "our Father." 
From the Gospel of Matthew, we learn that God himself took care of the child Jesus, God guided the three wise men through a bright star; they carried symbolic gifts, which reveal the identity and destiny of the child: gold for a king, incense for a priest, and myrrh to anoint a dead saviour.
The Lord has come among us to give life and hope to all humanity, and he says: "Look, I am doing something totally new." Happy Epiphany Day.