It’s the Feast of Presentation of the B.V.M., 3rd Class, with the color of White. In this episode: the meditation: “The Certainty of Death”, today’s news from the Church: “Roundabout or Church? A Choice Must Be Made”, a preview of this week’s episode of The Catholic Mass #33: “Solution to the Crisis”, and today’s thought from the Archbishop.
The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary invites us into one of the most cherished traditions of Christian imagination: the moment when the young Mary was brought by her parents, Saints Joachim and Anne, to the Temple in Jerusalem and offered entirely to God. The story does not appear in Scripture, but it comes from ancient Christian writings and early liturgical tradition. For centuries, the Church has treasured it not as biography in the modern sense, but as a window into Mary’s vocation. It shows her as the one who belonged to God even before she spoke her fiat to the angel.
By the fourth century, Christians in Jerusalem were already celebrating this feast. They gathered at the great basilica built near the Temple site and reflected on Mary as the living sanctuary who would one day bear the presence of God in her womb. Over time, both East and West embraced the celebration. The Eastern Churches honored it as one of their major feasts, calling it a mystery of joy and preparation. The West added it to the universal calendar much later, seeing in Mary’s presentation a symbol of the soul’s offering to God.
The feast highlights something tender and profound: the idea that Mary grew up in an atmosphere of prayer, shaped by love and silence, learning to listen for God long before the angel came to her home in Nazareth. Christian tradition portrays her as a child who walked with innocence toward the...
