This feast, celebrated on February 2, is known in the Orthodox Church as The Presentation of Christ in the Temple. Another name for the feast is The Meeting of our Lord. Roman Catholic and Protestant ...
The idea of blood sacrifice, the sacrifice of an animal or animals to a deity, does not appeal greatly to our tastes. It feels somehow primitive and inappropriate. And yet, the account we have just ...
It is hard to imagine being human without sin. We don't need global politics to remind us that, implicit in so much of our behaviour, is that deep instinct to self-aggrandisement and self-preservation ...
If this sentiment seems familiar to you it is because it is very close to what is said about its secular counterpart, Groundhog Day, also celebrated Feb. 2. The Catholics of long ago had it down pat ...
AMONG Christian festivals, Candlemas is one of the oldest on record, with references going all the way back to the fourth century. But when does the date fall, what is the biblical story behind it and ...
The presentation of Jesus is traditionally the 40th day after Christmas (Luke 2:22-40). It brings back to us some Christmas themes while touching already on some of Lent. The Temple is God’s dwelling ...
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