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Offline Viva Cristo Rey

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Happy Feast of Candlemas
« on: February 01, 2025, 05:11:23 PM »
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    Re: Happy Feast of Candlemas
    « Reply #1 on: February 02, 2025, 01:04:44 PM »
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    • And today also commemorates the first of the Seven Sorrows of Mary.
    From Luke: 2

    34 And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother: *Behold, this child is set for the ruin, and for the resurrection of many in Israel, and for a sign which shall be contradicted.

    35 And thy own soul a sword shall pierce, that out of many hearts thoughts may be revealed.

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    Re: Happy Feast of Candlemas
    « Reply #2 on: February 02, 2025, 02:56:05 PM »
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    • There is a strong mystical aspect to this historical event of the Presentation that we celebrate on Candlemas which was explained
    by St Alphonsus de Ligouri. It is the premise that Our Lady acted as a victim soul or     Co-Redemptrix officially
    beginning at the Presentation when Simeon pronounces these words:
    “And thy own soul a sword shall pierce,
    that, out of many hearts, thoughts may be revealed."    [Luke 2:35]
    Saint Alphonsus writes in “The Glories of Mary”:
    “Thus, Mary not only offered her Son to death in the Temple, but she renewed that offering every moment of her
    life for she revealed to St Bridget that the sorrow announced to her by the holy Simeon never left her heart until
    her Assumption into heaven. In the Presentation how much more deeply did she submit to God’s will and repeat
    ‘Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it done to me according to Thy word’”     (Luke 1:38)
    St Alphonsus goes onto say:     “The wills of Christ and Mary were then united, so that both offered the same
    h0Ɩ0cαųst; she thereby producing with Him the same effect, the salvation of the world.”



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    Re: Happy Feast of Candlemas
    « Reply #3 on: February 02, 2025, 03:27:23 PM »
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    • Ambrosiaster, Questiones Veteris et Novi Testamenti, 127, in Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum 50, 415, quoted in Selin, Priestly Celibacy: Theological Foundations §"Ritual Purity in the Patristic Tradition":
    Compared to the stars, the light of a lamp is but fog; while compared to the sun, the stars are obscure; and compared to the radiance of God, the sun is but night. Thus are the things which, in relationship to us, are licit and pure, and are as if illicit and impure with respect to the dignity of God; indeed, no matter how good they are, they are not appropriate to the person of God.
    This is Our Lady's spirit in obeying the Mosaic purification law.
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    Re: Happy Feast of Candlemas, First Sorrow of B. Virgin Mary
    « Reply #4 on: February 02, 2025, 08:25:08 PM »
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    • https://www.simplycatholic.com/what-are-the-seven-dolors-of-mary/

           Simeon’s prophecy during the presentation of Jesus (see Lk 2:35). Like all firstborn Jєωιѕн males, the baby Jesus was taken to the Temple in Jerusalem to be presented to God. According to Luke’s Gospel, there was, in the Temple, a devout old man named Simeon who joyfully recognized Jesus as the long-awaited Messiah.
          The happiness of this moment turned somber, however, when Simeon prophesied that the Child’s life would be one of “contradiction.” This prophetic announcement would indeed be fulfilled as the very people Jesus came to save from sin would reject, insult and eventually murder Him.
          Simeon further indicated that Mary, too, would suffer, that sharing in His life of rejection would be like a sword piercing her soul. Certainly, such foreboding prophecies must have troubled the young mother.

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    What strikes me is that the Child Jesus enters His Temple. From today's Epistle, [Mal. 3: 1 - 4]

    "...and presently the Lord Whom you seek, and the Angel of the testament Whom you desire, shall come to His Temple. Behold He cometh,...
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