One more thing...Tomorrow the Church celebrates the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple. This is when, in accordance with the Jewish law Jesus was taken to the temple by Mary and Joseph to be offered to God (Luke 2:22-40) and it also signifies the purification of Mary.
In the Gospel passage there is the beautiful scene when Simeon is led by the Lord to the temple, he had been promised that he would not die until he had seen the saviour. When he sees Jesus he takes him in his arms saying
"At last all powerful Master, you can dismiss your servant in peace, according to your word; for my eyes have seen your salvation,which you have prepared for all the nations peoples, a light to enlighten the Gentiles and give glory to your people Israel"
When I was at the seminary we would pray this prayer every night as part of night prayer and we would have the Lord exposed in the monstrance during that time, I would always love to say that prayer looking at Out Lord in the Consecrated Host realising that I was seeing what Simeon was seeing, the salvation of God for all people.
So have a great feast day tommorrow. If you get to Mass don't forget to take some candles to get blessed as that is the traditional day for blessing candles. Candles of course symbolising Christ as the light of the world, who was revealed to Simeon on that day in the temple.
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