<p class="title_brown">IV Mystery</p>

<p class="subtitle_brown">The presentation of Jesus in the Temple</p>

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We contemplate the mystery of the <em>presentation of Jesus in the Temple</em>, meditating on the words from the Gospel according to Saint Luke:</p>

<p class="quote">And when eight days had passed, before His circumcision, His name was <em>then</em> called Jesus, the name given by the angel before He was conceived in the womb. And when the days for their purification according to the law of Moses were completed, they brought Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord.&nbsp;And there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; and this man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel; and the Holy Spirit was upon him. And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord&rsquo;s Christ.<br />
[Lk 2,21-22.25-26]</p>

<p class="normal_text">The incarnation of the Word submitted God to the laws of time, making him an accomplisher of the rituals of the time. The real Temple, as he would later call himself, is shown in the ancient temple, a house built of columns that become the symbolic scenario of the ancient civilization.<br />
Jesus is presented in each time and place, in each day and in all temples where the voice of the prophecy is made heard. Rather often, throughout human history, it is Mary who presents Him.<br />
Also in Fatima, it is Mary who presents Christ to men and women of our time.<br />
Virgin of Fatima, Lady of the Presentation, intercede for us next to Christ so that we may accept the light offered to all peoples.</p>
