Theophany Cleaning

On December 6th, the Orthodox Church celebrates Theophany–the Baptism of Christ and the day that the nature of the trinity is revealed. It officially marks the end of the 12 days of Christmas and launches the pre-lent section of the Christian calendar.  On Tuesday (or Monday night)  Orthodox around the world celebrated a liturgy and the ritual blessing of water.  I’m no theologian and other blogs (Orrologian and many people on Facebook) have done a much better job explaining the spiritual significance of the Feast than I could ever do.

All I can add is that during the service, we celebrate all of the times water serves a salvivic purpose–that is, from Moses to Christ’s baptism, we look at all of the times God uses water to point towards the ultimate redemption and transformation of this world.  The priest then blesses a container of water (sometimes a river or an ocean or a glacier too) and the people of the Church get to take home small bottles of holy water that are used for blessings and healings.

Theophany also marks the point in the Church calendar where a priest traditionally performs house blessings.  This is where my post tile, sponsored by PBN and Right at Home Cleaning, comes into play.  Since every room in each Orthodox home is about to be prayed over and sprinkled with the blessed water, it makes since that this is a big cleaning season.

So. I got the Christmas stuff packed away on the 7th but now comes the big fun.  In the next couple of weeks I need to:
1. Finish packing up all the snow clothes that came out for our Colorado trip
2. See if we can get into the attic and move the baby stuff out of the spare room
3. Remove the shower door from the downstairs bathroom since the cat can’t comprehend that his bathroom area is in the garage
4.  Sew curtains for our master bedroom
5. Clean out my car

I don’t know if my car is actually getting a blessing, but there are way too many Cheerios on the seats.

Are you done cleaning up after Christmas?  Any Theophany plans?