Responsorial Psalm 47,
Response: O God, we ponder your love within your temple. O God, we ponder your love within your temple. Your praise, O God, like your name reaches the ends of the earth. With justice your right hand is filled. Response: O God, we ponder your love within your temple. ------------------------------- I am the living temple of the Lord through my Baptism. May He always receive here due reverence and praise. Amen
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According to tradition, Blaise had been a doctor before he was ordained a priest. He became the bishop of Sebaste (now in central Turkey). During a period of persecution, he fled to a cave where he lived as a hermit. […] One legend says that while Blaise was in prison, a mother brought him her small boy, who was choking on a fishbone stuck in his throat. Blaise prayed over the child, and he was healed. Every year on St. Blaise’s feast, two candles tied with ribbon in the shape of an X are used to bless throats … (courtesy of www.loyolapress.com) O Glorious Saint Blaise,
who by thy martyrdom has left to the Church a precious witness to the faith, obtain for us the grace to preserve within ourselves this divine gift, and to defend, without human respect, both by word and example, the truth of that same faith, which is so wickedly attacked and slandered in these our times. You who miraculously cured a little child when it was at the point of death by reason of an affliction of the throat, grant us your powerful protection in like misfortunes; and, above all, obtain for us the grace of repentance, together with a faithful observance of our Church, and avoidance from offending Almighty God. Amen. Bishop Robert Barron in his commentary to the Gospel for today’s Feast Day points out its twofold meaning. The temple is in literal sense the dwelling place of the Lord. The sins of the nation had caused the glory of the Lord to depart from the temple. Jesus' presentation in the Temple has a symbolic meaning then. The glory of God returns to the Temple in the person of the Baby Jesus. This Glory fills out not only the temple in Jerusalem. The Glory of God through the sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross fills us, who are temples of God’s Glory with the new life. This is the light that Simeon mentioned in his words when he saw Baby Jesus in the Temple. The light that is our way out of sin and darkness of this world’s evil to eternal Kingdom. Make sure that Jesus shines for you in your church where you praise God for his faithfulness and in your heart where you should give thanks to God every day. Listen to the beautiful rendition of Simeon’s confession “Nunc Dimittis – Let your Servant Depart” by Voces Catabiles, Barnaby Smith conducting (in Latin). |
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