Every Feb. 2, the universal Church celebrates the feast of the Presentation of the Lord. Mary and Joseph bring the newborn Jesus to the Temple, the holy place, the house of God. The presentation ...

Candlemas Day, celebrated on February 2nd, is a Catholic feast that commemorates the presentation of Baby Jesus at the Temple in Jerusalem and the purification of the Virgin Mary. In Mexico ...

It’s easy to conceptualize the presentation of the Lord because we find it in Scripture. Luke’s Gospel tells of the Holy Family’s journey to the Temple when Jesus was 8 days old. According ...

Sunday, Feb. 2, is the feast of the Presentation of the Lord ... who frequented the Temple, looking and longing. Holding the Infant Jesus was such a consolation — God so loved the world that ...

Cornelis de Vos, “Presentation of Jesus at the Temple”, 1620 (photo ... Keeping the Christmas decorations up until then is an old Catholic custom and many families still do it today.

The presentation of Jesus in the Temple was a bit like our baptisms. This was the formal dedication of a firstborn boy to the God who gave him life. Like baptism, it symbolized the child's ...

Mary and Joseph present the two turtledoves as a gift to the Temple on the double occasion of Mary's purification and Jesus's presentation. At the far left a woman dressed in red holds a black rod ...

Rosary beads close rosaryA string of beads used as a method of prayer or meditation, for example by Buddhists and Roman Catholic ... The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple. Fruit of the Mystery ...

This is the message of our collect: because of the sacrifice of Christ, who “was this day presented in the Temple, in substance of our flesh”, we can now ask the Father “that we may be presented to ...

As Holy Week is nearing the end, students at one local Catholic School are honoring the passion and death of Jesus Christ with ... of our Lourde’ It’s a presentation put on by students for ...

Only Luke and Matthew tell us about Jesus before his public ministry, and their stories don't agree. After the Nativity, Luke recounts the circumcision, the Presentation in the Temple and the ...

The acts that the Holy Family undertake at the Temple are, in one sense, super­­fluous. Mary and Joseph do not need to present their son to the Lord, for he is God incarnate. Nor does Mary need to be ...