{"id":33749,"date":"2026-01-06T20:19:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T00:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=33749"},"modified":"2026-01-06T20:19:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T00:19:54","slug":"today-is-not-any-day-it-is-epiphany-and-it-is-christmas-for-some-orthodox-christians-including-diana-and-her-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/today-is-not-any-day-it-is-epiphany-and-it-is-christmas-for-some-orthodox-christians-including-diana-and-her-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is not any day: It is Epiphany&#8230; and it is Christmas for some Orthodox Christians, including Diana and her family!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"432\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FinalBambiChristmas.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FinalBambiChristmas.jpg 432w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FinalBambiChristmas-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 85vw, 432px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Merry Christmas Diana et al. \u2764\ufe0f :)! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This music post starts by offering Diana and her loved ones a Christmas song. Thanks to Ms. Marilyn Naaman for her unique voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Marilyne Naaman - Mon Beau Sapin (Live on MTV Lebanon)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WN7eS5X1PTk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For the pleasure of Bambi&#8217;s own ears as well as yours, if you are interested dear readers, she now shares with you a beautiful Greek Orthodox Epiphany hymn, in both Arabic and Greek, performed by the The Choir of Eparchy of Tripoli in Northern Lebanon. The latter is part of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bambi dedicates this meaningful chant to her dad, Antoine, whose faith has been a source of inspiration to her throughout her life&#8230; Thank you \u2764\ufe0f.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Epiphany to those who have celebrated it today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"\u0623\u0646\u062a\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0630\u064a\u0646\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Lzuhogh44w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/heart.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31085\" style=\"width:262px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/heart.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/heart-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas Diana et al. \u2764\ufe0f :)! This music post starts by offering Diana and her loved ones a Christmas song. Thanks to Ms. Marilyn Naaman for her unique voice. For the pleasure of Bambi&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33750,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33749\/revisions\/33750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}