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Epiphany season door chalking on an apartment door in the Midwestern US A Christmas wreath adorning a home, with the top left-hand corner of the front door chalked for Epiphany-tide and the wreath hanger bearing a placard of the archangel Gabriel. Chalking the door is a Christian Epiphanytide tradition used to bless one's home. [1]
The Adoration of the Magi by Edward Burne-Jones (1904) The Epiphanytide tradition of chalking the door involves writing C M B (representing the names of the Three Wise Men as well as the Christian prayer Christus mansionem benedicat) with the year flanking both sides on one's door, as seen here on an apartment door in the Midwestern US.
In Scotland through the mid- to late 1800s, chalking the door of a tenement was a way of notifying residents that they must move out by a given day. [ 1 ] By custom, leases and other similar contracts began or ended on the Scottish term days , which are Whitsunday and Martinmas .
Traditional house blessing in chalk, written by Sternsinger on the door beam of the home. January 6 is a public holiday in Austria, three federal states of Germany, and three cantons of Switzerland, as well as in parts of Graubünden. In the German-speaking lands, groups of young people called Sternsinger (star singers) travel from door to door ...
“A front door carries much more meaning than the official entrance of our home,” says Michelle Lewis, Color Psychology expert and author of Color Secrets. She explains that in various global ...
That elephant statue has a deep symbolic meaning. The post If You See an Elephant Statue at a Front Door, This Is What It Means appeared first on Reader's Digest.
There are certain Christian traditions that are practiced throughout the liturgical year, such as praying a daily devotional during Advent, erecting a nativity scene during Christmastide, chalking the door on Epiphany Day, fasting during Lent, waving palms on Palm Sunday, eating easter eggs during Eastertide, and decorating the church in red on ...
Image credits: Thick_Cookie_7838 Being a part of an HOA, of course, isn’t free. On average, residents pay from $100 to $300, sometimes with fees reaching the thousands mark.