"The Presentation in the Temple," by Alvaro Pirez, 1430. (Metropolitan Museum of Art) At the end of the fourth century, a woman named Etheria made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. When her journal was ...

2, is the feast of the Presentation of the Lord ... us now in the Blessed Sacrament and in the temple of our hearts through his Spirit. Our Lord seeks communion with us and is not ashamed to ...

Thus says the Lord God: Lo, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me; and suddenly there will come to the temple the Lord whom you seek, and the messenger of the covenant whom you desire ...

It is also one final opportunity in our liturgy to reflect on a vitally important motif of this season: the consoling, redeeming, transformative presence of light. Think back to Luke’s account of ...

February 2 marks the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple. St Bede wrote of Christ as the Temple itself A sublime if slightly rubbed illumination stands at the start of the Gospels in the Codex ...

Neither the glitzy gewgaws of Christmas nor the Lord’s carefully timed nativity feast were part of his good news ... Now, on 2 February, comes Candlemas. It is also known as the Presentation of Christ ...

When the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, the parents of Jesus brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as ... God and said, Our painting by Lorenzetti ...