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The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary has been observed within Western Christianity for more than nine centuries. All the same, its roots are in the East, where Christians have observed this great event as early as the sixth century under the slightly more revealing title, The Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple. Every feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary is, in some way, a commemoration of her Motherhood—that…
On this, the second to last Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Church presents us with readings which orient our hearts and minds towards the end times. As we race towards the conclusion of another liturgical year we are invited to lift our gaze from the here and now and ponder for a while the world that is to come. The demands of family life or parish life can often create in us a spiral of…
“For they have all contributed from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had, her whole livelihood.” — Mark 12:44 Too often people hear the ending of this Gospel simply in financial terms. “Well, even though she gave hardly anything compared to all those rich people, Jesus is pointing out that she gave a whole lot more, because it was all the money that she had!” The root of the Greek…
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