For a Doctrinal Homily Outline for the Feast of the Presentation, please click here.
- Central idea: Christ purifies man.
- Doctrine: Sin.
- Practical application: Our moral struggle.
- In the Gospel reading, Simeon declares that this forty-day-old-child that Mary and Joseph have brought to the Temple of Jerusalem is the Savior that God promised this old man would see before he died. In the Psalms we pray “The Lord is my light and my salvation” (Ps. 27:1). Simeon attests to his Master, God, that Jesus is “your salvation” and light and glory to humanity.
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