Celebrating Three Kings Day the Puerto Rican Way - Join The Lights

The rental has two separate entrances with a shared pool and beach area. I highly recommend the location, facility and the weather in this beautiful surfing town. The facility and grounds are perfect on a beautiful beach setting. As I grew older, I participated in Three Kings celebrations with Puerto Rican friends and religious family members, and learned to appreciate a tradition that had no Santa Claus. When I was growing up, I was always more interested in the figures of the three kings, which were part of our family creche-nativity scene, than I was with the baby Jesus or Mary.

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The Epiphany celebration serves as the initial setting for – and anchors the action, theme, and climax of – James Joyce’s short story “The Dead” from his 1914 collection, Dubliners. The Orthodox consider Jesus’ Baptism to be the first step towards the Crucifixion, and there are some parallels in the netwish hymnography used on this day and the hymns chanted on Good Friday. In Brazil, the day is called “Dia dos Reis” and in the rest of Latin America “Día de Reyes” commemorating the arrival of the Magi to confirm Jesus as son of God. The priests are going to throw a wooden cross in the Yantra river.

A miracle attested to as early as St. John Chrysostom. Some regions and especially some communities celebrating the Tridentine Mass extend the season to as many as forty days, ending Christmastide traditionally on Candlemas . Prior to 1976, Anglican churches observed an eight-day octave, beginning on January 6. We recently traveled to this site for the wedding of our daughter. We shared the facility with our family and the groom’s family.