Happy Candlemas: Today Is the Feast of Jesus’s Presentation in the Temple
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Happy Candlemas! Today is the feast of the Presentation of Baby Jesus in the Temple, which, in the English-speaking Catholic and later Anglican tradition, has long been called Candlemas or Candle Mass. The Presentation is chronicled in the Gospel of Luke, where Jesus’s Mother Mary and His foster-father Joseph bring the baby to the Temple in accord with Jewish law, which required firstborn sons to be presented to God and mothers purified 40 days after birth (see Leviticus 12). While at the Temple, the holy man Simeon prophesied about Jesus and the sorrow His salvific role would bring His Mother. A prophetess, Anna, also bore witness to the Messiahship of Jesus.
Happy Candlemas: Today Is the Feast of Jesus’s Presentation in the Temple
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Happy Candlemas: Today Is the Feast of Jesus’s Presentation in the Temple
Happy Candlemas! Today is the feast of the Presentation of Baby Jesus in the Temple, which, in the English-speaking Catholic and later Anglican tradition, has long been called Candlemas or Candle Mass. The Presentation is chronicled in the Gospel of Luke, where Jesus’s Mother Mary and His foster-father Joseph bring the baby to the Temple in accord with Jewish law, which required firstborn sons to be presented to God and mothers purified 40 days after birth (see Leviticus 12). While at the Temple, the holy man Simeon prophesied about Jesus and the sorrow His salvific role would bring His Mother. A prophetess, Anna, also bore witness to the Messiahship of Jesus.