For my eyes have seen Your salvation, which You have prepared before the face of all peoples, a light of revelation to the Gentiles and for the glory of Your people, Israel.” And His father and mother marveled at what was said about Him.
And when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for Him what the custom of the Law required, Symeon took Him in his arms and blessed God and said: “Now let Your servant depart in peace, O Master, according to Your word. And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. He was awaiting the consolation of Israel and the Holy Spirit was upon him. Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Symeon and this man was righteous and devout. When the days of her purification according to the Law of Moses were completed, they brought the child Jesus up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord, as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every male who opens the womb shall be dedicated to the Lord” (Exodus 13:2, 12), and to offer a sacrifice in accordance with what is said in the Law of the Lord, “a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons” (Leviticus 12:1-8). Philoptochos – Love for the poor at Saint Paul’s.
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