Feast
Presentation of the Lord
- Feast day
- February 02
Life
The Presentation of the Lord commemorates the bringing of the infant Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem forty days after his birth, in accordance with the Law of Moses, where the elderly Simeon and the prophetess Anna recognized him as the Messiah. Simeon hailed him as a light to the nations, and the feast is traditionally marked by the blessing of candles, giving it the popular name Candlemas.
The saint of the day, every day
Bosko shows you the saint the Church honors today, every day — their story, today's feast, and where they fall in your tradition's liturgical calendar, so a feast that matters to you never quietly slips past.