Today is the feast of the "Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple," which is called the Purification of Mothers among the Jews. This feast is also called the day of consecration for religious. I would say that it is apt to call this day so...
Religious consecration is the presentation of the Lord to us. Every religious is supposed to receive the Lord into the temple, for we are the temple of the Holy Spirit. As Lonergan would assert, we are the temple of the Holy Spirit by Grace. Our bodies are made to receive the Lord. While it is termed the day of the religious, the feast is an invitation for all to receive the Lord into the temple. Then everyone will be able to exclaim like Simeon:
"Now, Lord, you have kept your word: let your servant go in peace.
with my own eyes I have seen the salvation which you have prepared in the sight of every people: a light to reveal you to the nations and the glory of your people Israel"
Let us make ourselves a temple fit for Him...
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