February 2 is a very important day in the Church calendar. As 'The Feast of The Presentation of Christ in The Temple', and ...

The Pope noted how Mary and Joseph were 'deeply moved and astonished' as Simeon identified Jesus through these three ...

There is something about the mother-child bond that holds even after death. This fact makes it easier to consider all the ...

If Candlemas be fair and bright, winter has another flight. If Candlemas brings clouds and rain, winter will not come ...

The Catholic Church celebrates every February 2nd, Candlemas Day, the presentation of Baby Jesus in the temple. On this day, ...

CHRISTMAS begins with a helpless child, utterly dependent for food and warmth on his mother. Forty days of festival later, the season ends with that child in the arms of an old man, righteous and ...

Brothers and sisters in Christ, forty days ago we celebrated the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now we recall the day ... as we now come to him for cleansing. In their old age Simeon and Anna ...

On Sunday, many of the Christian faithful celebrated the Festival of the Presentation of Our Lord, which marks the end of the ...

Pope Francis reflects on the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple which, he says, serves as a reminder that Jesus is for ...

Was she thinking: "Just wait tell I’m home and ... Mary and Joseph go to dedicate Jesus at the temple in Jerusalem. There they encounter Simeon and Anna (Luke 2:21-38). They made a modest ...

delivered a sermon from the Gospel of Luke 2: 22-40 about the presentation of Jesus at 40 days old in the Temple in Jerusalem where Simeon the Prophet and Anna the Prophetess have been anxiously ...