Tuesday,
2/2/16
We
have beautiful readings for the Feast of the Presentation. Malachy, speaking
for God says, “Lo, I am sending my messenger, he will purify the sons of Levi.”
The
reading from the Letter to the Hebrew’s tells us that for him to assume the
guilt of our sins he had to become one of us. It could put us in mind of that
passage in Paul’s Letter to the Philippians that states that rather than
considering his equality with God something to be clung to, he emptied
himself.
The
Gospel has us picturing a young Mary and Joseph, proud of their child on his
first outing. The priest handling the offering of turtledoves for redeeming the
firstborn from God just went about his chore in an automatic way, but the old
man and the old woman recognized their savior. They were the patron saints of people
who slip quietly in and out of our pews.
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