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The Encounter of the Lord

Last night we celebrated the great feast of the Encounter of the Lord, this is 40 days after the Feast of the Nativity when Mary and Joseph presented Jesus in the temple.  This is the hymn which Simeon uttered when he received the Child Jesus in his arms:

“Master, now you are dismissing your servant in peace,
    according to your word;
 for my eyes have seen your salvation,
     which you have prepared in the presence of all peoples,
 a light for revelation to the Gentiles
    and for glory to your people Israel.”
Luke 2:29-32


There was also a special blessing of candles which we could take home and use in our prayer corners, I have a good stack of them now because for some reason I keep on using our emergency candles there instead of the blessed ones. 


Bonus Tiernan cuteness from this morning :-)




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