Tag: Presentation of the Lord
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February 2: Mary, Anna, Egeria
The “Feast of the Presentation of the Lord,” as it is now titled — could make a woman like me quite sad, for a number of reasons.
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Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple
The Lord turns obedience into wisdom by the working of his Holy Spirit.
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The Optional Presence of the Prophet Anna
The shorter form of the gospel for today’s feast simply drops the Lukan account of the prophet Anna (Lk 2:36-38), thus rendering her presence at the presentation of Jesus in the temple “optional”.