Spring Semester
Well, it’s February already and the spring semester at AI is in full-swing! The profs aren’t wasting time in assigning the papers and projects for the semester, but hopefully that will mean less stress at the end of the semester.
Right now, my life is pretty much filled up with reading and writing and researching and then reading and writing some more! Fortunately, most of the stuff that I have to read is really interesting. For example, I just learned this evening that the Feast of Epiphany really celebrates not just the visit of the Magi, but the baptism of Jesus and the wedding at Cana too. Apparently, in the old days Epiphany was celebrated as an octave just like Christmas and Easter, and the baptism of the Lord would signify the end of the octave.
Nowadays, the shifting of the baptism celebration to make it fall on a Sunday has kind of messed up the whole octave idea (although, if you look at the USCCB website, they still refer to the weekdays after the Epiphany as “the Monday after Epiphany” and so forth). But, this year, both feasts were able to fall on a Sunday so there was a full octave. Also, they apparently focus on the baptism of Jesus in the Epiphany in the Eastern Church.
Returning to the matter at hand, however, all kinds of interesting and enlightening information is being brought up in my classes this semester, which is really cool. Several classes are also overlapping well in terms of subject matter, which always makes me excited!
Well, I better get back to homework for now. Wisdom Literature is calling. Catch ya next time!