....For the First Time in 800 Years (2000?), the ‘Christmas Star’ Will Be Visible....
No it will not be!!!!
http://saintandrewgoc.org/home/2016/12/22/the-star-of-bethlehem
If you don’t believe Orthodox Tradition, read the Scriptures. No astronomical body could do what the Star did to guide the Magi!!
I never claimed any connection to that.
Exactly! The info at the link you posted makes total sense.
"Saints John Chrysostom and Theophilact affirm that it was not an ordinary star, like those we see every night, but "a divine and angelic power that appeared in the form of a star." Other stars had their origin at the creation of the universe, but his star was revealed only at the end of the ages, when the Logos/Word became incarnate. Other stars are fixed in the heavens, but this one was visible lower in the skies. Other stars are visible only at night, but this one shone like the sun during the day, far surpassing every other star in size and brilliance. Other stars (like the planets, sun, and moon) moved constantly with the vault of heaven; but this one moved sometimes, and other times stood sill, as Saint Theophilact says: "It moved as the Magi moved, and stood still as they rested."
According to the Orthodox Christian Tradition the Star of Bethlehem which led the Magi was not an astronomical event, but it was rather a supernatural being-an angel. This Angel was sent by God to lead the Magi to the Christ Child and the world to the dawn of a new light of knowledge, as seen in the Troparion (Hymn) of the Holy Nativity:
I don’t know that it was an angel and the Bible doesn’t say, it just calls it a star and the Bible(with respect to the saints you mention) doesn’t mention that it shown by day.(like God’s pillar of cloud showed to the Israelites by day.
I do think that it was no ordinary heavenly body but that gifted Magi who would have known the heavens would have realized that it was not in a place that a known star would be and that it stood nightly at least in a fixed location. Perhaps when they got to Jerusalem and then left the King’s court to seek the Christ child they saw more of a sense of the movement in the ‘star’ as it was nearly overhead and at that point the object performed localized movements that the Magi could follow until they came to Jesus and the “star was right overhead. I don’t believe it was super bright but it could be seen unaided by those who knew the heavens. Yes I could believe that when the magi got close enough that whatever the object was would move as if winking at them and nudging them to their savior!