Year C, Presentation of Our Lord
"The Risk of a Jesus Who Offends”
Main point: We selectively approve of the cultural Jesus who matches our preformulated ideas about him. We rarely allow Jesus to offend us so that we might grow in faith.
INTRODUCTION: Contextualizing the Feast
On this day we celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of our Lord at the Temple - or more accurately stated - the Feast of the Purification of Mary. It was the Jewish custom according to the Law of Moses, for women who had given birth to present themselves at the Temple 40 days after the birth of their child, to be restored to the community, to have…
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