Tag: Presentation
Earthly life is inextricably bound up with suffering
When bowed and borne down under the weight of our own sorrows and sufferings, or when our hearts ache at the sight and thought of what many of our brethren of the human family often have to endure, let us turn our eyes upon the earthly life of Our Lord and His Blessed Mother, and… Read More ›
We are all called to carry and pass on the flame
Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple This then is the message which we have heard from Him and declare unto you: that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all.—1 John 1:5 This morning as I was going into our church for Vigils (our 4 AM Divine Office) the church was aglow… Read More ›
Feast of the Presentation
Today’s Feast, which marks the end of the Christmas season [in the old liturgical calendar], is a feast both of Jesus and of Mary: of Jesus, because He is presented by His Mother in the Temple forty days after His birth, according to the requirements of the law; of Mary, because she submits herself to… Read More ›
We must be willing to do more than expected
[Neither] the Virgin Mother nor Our Lord was obliged by the laws to which they submitted forty days after the birth of Jesus. But if they exempted themselves, they would give bad example to others who would not understand their reasons, and perhaps their action would be the occasion to others of disobeying laws by… Read More ›