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Presentation of the Lord into the Temple
The Feast of our Lord’s Entry into the Temple is celebrated on the 8th day of the month of Meshir, and is among the Seven Minor Feasts of the Lord. In order to fulfill the Law, the Virgin Mary took the newborn Christ to the Temple and offered a burnt offering. It was the commandment of God to the Jews in the Old Testament that a woman, after completing her period of purification (which is forty days if the newborn was male and sixty if it was female) would go to the Temple to offer thanks and the appropriate sacrifice.If the mother was rich, she would offer a lamb of at least one year of age as a burnt offering sacrifice, and with it a pair of pigeons or doves as a sin offering.
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Holy Great Fast
Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, this holy period is specified for correction, purification, an enlightenment of our entire being, both physically and spiritually. Great Lent is considered the spring of our spiritual life, and for every soul that yearns for her Heavenly Bridegroom, this is considered “a honeymoon,” in which the soul relinquishes worldly cares in order to be free for the Bridegroom and can say with the bride of the Song of Solomon, “Scarcely had I passed by them, when I fund the one I love. I held him and would not let him go, until I had brought him to the house of my mother, and into the chamber of her who conceived me. I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the doves of the field, do not stir up no awaken love until it pleases” (Song of Solomon 3:4-5).
More Events Coming Up:
Feast of the Cross
March 19
Lazurus Satuday
April 20
Entry into Jerusalem
April 21
Pascha Week
April 22 - 24
