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The Presentation of Christ and Purification of the Virgin Mary 2017
Thursday, February 2, 2017 10:34
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Taking Jesus into his arms, Simeon cried out and said: * Truly Thou art a light to enlighten the gentiles, and to the glory of thy people Israel. V. When His parents were bringing in the Child Jesus, then he received Him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said: Truly Thou art a light to enlighten the gentiles, and to the glory of thy people Israel. (The seventh responsory of Matins on the feast of the Purification.)
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| The Presentation of Christ in the Temple, from the Brussels Hours (also known as the Très-Belles Heures de Jehan de France, Duc de Berry), by Jacquemart de Hesdin and workshop, ca. 1400. |
R. Suscipiens Jesum in ulnas suas Simeon, exclamavit, et dixit: * Tu es vere lumen ad illuminationem Gentium, et gloriam plebis tuae Israel. V. Cum inducerent puerum Jesum parentes ejus, et ipse accepit eum in ulnas suas, et benedixit Deum, et dixit: Tu es vere…
Source: http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2017/02/the-presentation-of-christ-and.html
Psalm 97:7
Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods. Leviticus 26:1
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God. 2 Kings 17:12
For they served idols, whereof the Lord had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing. Isaiah 2:8
Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: 2 Kings 21:21
And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them: