Home by Another Route : Paulist Press : 9780809153046 : 0809153041 : 06 Dec 2016 : On the feast of the Epiphany, the visit of the Three Magi to the manger, the author takes up a new spiritual journal through a year to the next Epiphany. Those Wise Men following their Star have long held a special place in the imagination of the faithful of all ages. So too does art provide a mirror-or window-on history, on worlds past, on Faith. Lux Umbra Dei-"Light is the Shadow of God."-whether the light of the Star leading the Magi, or the blinding flash of light that converted St. Paul, or the natural light all around us each day. Likewise music-both sacred and secular-builds a bridge between past and present as dazzling as the Golden Gate. To play or just to listen offer two ways of crossing that bridge and entering another world. It is a religious experience in the most literal sense of the word. This journey with the Magi though art and faith shapes a year as it proceeds from season to season,