Today we celebrate many things, namely the National Day of Prayer for the African American Family, the World Day for Consecrated Life, Groundhog Day, World Wetlands Day, and SuperBowl Sunday. Liturgically we celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord when Mary and Joseph bring their newborn child, Jesus to the temple. As narrated in Luke’s gospel “Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord, and to offer the sacrifice of a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons, in accordance with the dictate in the law of the Lord.”
Simeon and Anna saw much more to this scene than a common couple fulfilling the Law. Simeon takes the child in his arms and says “nunc dimittis”- “Now you can dismiss your servant, O Lord for I have seen it all!” Now that the Messiah has come he can die in peace. Hopefully we too are ready for death because we have received Jesus into our lives by welcoming the most vulnerable in our society
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