December 29 - Fifth Day of the Octave of Christmas
(1Jn.2:3-11; Ps.96:1-3,5-6,11; Lk.2:22-35) “The way we can be sure we are in union with Him is if one who claims to abide in Him conducts himself just as He did.” “The darkness is over and the real light begins to shine,” and we must live in that light. “My eyes have witnessed your saving deed displayed for all peoples to see,” declares Simeon in his prophecy over the Christ child. “In accord with the dictate in the law of the Lord,” though He Himself is God, Mary and Joseph dutifully bring Jesus to the temple to be “consecrated to the Lord” as every first-born male must. And there the “just…
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