The Presentation February 2

The Temple in Jerusalem was where the Holy of Holies dwelt.  

There was no holier place on earth!

The Most High who brought the Israelites out of slavery from Egypt. 

Who fed them with manna in the desert

And who led them to the Promised Land. 

Dwelt there. 

So that Israel would never forget all that God had done for them, He decreed that the first born whether man or beast should be consecrated to the Lord.  Ex. 13:1

Mary and Joseph therefore brought Jesus to the Temple to present Him to the Lord. 

The Temple however no longer exists. 

It was destroyed by the Romans in 70AD. 

So what does the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple mean for us today?

Is it just an historical event in the life Jesus that we remember every year ?

Rather we are the Temple of the Lord who by the Holy Spirit dwells in us. 1 Cor. 3:16. 

And while the Temple in Jerusalem was made by human hands. 

We, The New Temple of the Lord are made by God Himself, in His own image and likeness. 

And at every Mass, Jesus presents Himself to us in the Eucharist. 

The priest is the New Simeon who holds Christ in his hands and presents Him to the Father in us who are living Temples of the Most High.

With every Eucharist we receive, 

the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple is renewed; 

Not symbolically, but Actually!

Not historically, but Now!

For we are the Temple of the Lord and

The Eucharist is Christ Himself in His Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity being presented in the Temple which is us!