Tag: Egeria
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February 2: Mary, Anna, Egeria
The “Feast of the Presentation of the Lord,” as it is now titled — could make a woman like me quite sad, for a number of reasons.
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The Optional Presence of the Prophet Anna
The shorter form of the gospel for today’s feast simply drops the Lukan account of the prophet Anna (Lk 2:36-38), thus rendering her presence at the presentation of Jesus in the temple “optional”.
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Happy Not-Ascension Thursday!
I wish it were more possible for us to observe the Christian calendar with its rhythm of fasts and feasts, ever calling us out of the humdrum of endless work weeks and into that other time which is God’s time.