Christ, Light of the World

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🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In this podcast, Fr. Peter Armenio reflects on the Presentation of the Lord and the Church’s celebration of this feast on February 2. He explains the historical background of the event and what it means for us today, primarily that it is through the Presentation that we recognize Jesus as the Light of the World and we are given the hope of salvation. As disciples, Jesus’s Presentation is an invitation to bask in the Light and to radiate the Light among those we encounter each day, especially ...

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0:00.0	In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
0:04.0	My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.
0:13.0	I adore you with profound reverence.
0:17.0	I ask your pardon for my sins and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.
0:25.2	My immaculate mother, St. Joseph, my father, and Lord, my guardian angel, and to seed for me.
0:33.9	Today, we contemplated in a more direct way the fourth joyful mystery of the rosary, the presentation of our Lord.
0:48.3	A certain sense, the Christmas season, not liturgically, but in spirit, ends on today's feast.
1:02.0	The last celebratory presentation of our Lord.
1:09.3	The grand celebration of Christm our Lord's initial presentation of himself,
1:18.3	in a more immediate sense to the shepherds.
1:23.6	We then celebrate the fact that the little baby is not only human but God.
1:33.1	And we focus a little bit on Mary being the mother of God.
1:39.8	The baby being presented as God with a human nature, maintaining his divine nature.
1:50.7	Third manifestation of Jesus, epiphany does mean manifestation in Greek, to the Gentiles,
1:58.0	represented by the three Magi,
2:02.1	who embark upon an arduous journey to see the Lord.
2:10.0	And the fourth one, Jesus is presented in the temple,
2:17.3	and he is presented as the light of the world.
2:22.9	He's proclaimed as a light, as the hope, as the meaning of every human life.
2:34.3	He is the light of the world.
2:37.0	And these two mysterious visitors of the temple,
2:44.4	Simeon, who is a prophet in his own right,
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