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Christ the Firstborn

Photo of daffodils with text overlay of the couplet, "Christ the Firstborn."
“Christ the Firstborn”
A reflection on Luke 2:22-40
Feast of the Presentation of the Lord
©️2025 Gloria M. Chang

Mary presented Christ the Firstborn in the temple, offering humanity’s renewal to God.

When the days were completed for their purification according to the law of Moses, they took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, just as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord,” and to offer the sacrifice of “a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons,” in accordance with the dictate in the law of the Lord.

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Anna the Prophetess

Anna the Prophetess, Shalom Snail, Christmas
“Anna the Prophetess”
Luke 2:36-40 “in a snailshell”
The Sixth Day in the Octave of Christmas
©️2021 Gloria M. Chang

There was also a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived seven years with her husband after her marriage, and then as a widow until she was eighty-four.

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The Goldsmith’s Son

Candlemas, 11th century illuminated Byzantine manuscript (Menologion of Basil II)

Feast of the Presentation of the Lord

Malachi 3:1-4; Hebrews 2:14-18; Luke 2:22-40

Out of God’s furnace
Adam emerged,
Shining like silver and gold. 
Light of the Godhead
Pure from his core
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