“NOW, MASTER, YOU MAY LET YOUR SERVANT GO IN PEACE, ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD, FOR MY EYES HAVE SEEN YOUR SALVATION.” LK 2:22-40
Humbly submit your will to God (thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
When the days were completed for their purification
according to the law of Moses,
Mary and Joseph took Jesus 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.
Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon.
This man was righteous and devout,
awaiting the consolation of Israel,
and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit
that he should not see death
before he had seen the Christ of the Lord.
He came in the Spirit into the temple;
and when the parents brought in the child Jesus
to perform the custom of the law in regard to him,
he took him into his arms and blessed God, saying:
“Now, Master, you may let your servant go
in peace, according to your word,
for my eyes have seen your salvation,
which you prepared in the sight of all the peoples:
a light for revelation to the Gentiles,
and glory for your people Israel.” Canticle of Simeon repeated in Night Prayer of Divine Office
The child’s father and mother were amazed at what was said about him;
and Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother,
“Behold, this child is destined
for the fall and rise of many in Israel,
and to be a sign that will be contradicted
—and you yourself a sword will pierce–
so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”
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.
She never left the temple,
but worshiped night and day with fasting and prayer.
And coming forward at that very time,
she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child
to all who were awaiting the redemption of Jerusalem.
When they had fulfilled all the prescriptions
of the law of the Lord,
they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.
The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom;
and the favor of God was upon him. Lk 2:22-40
We are filled with the same Holy Spirit as Simeon and Anna to guide us each day. Say, “Come, Holy Spirit” often throughout your day. ”It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Christ of the Lord.” Anna never left the temple, but worshiped night and day with fasting and prayer. In the new year, we have the great opportunity that the Catholic Church has prepared for us to spend more time in the Church, worshiping, fasting, and praying.
Jesus teaches us how to fight the Devil by increasing our faith with the Scriptures, fasting, praying, and replacing our pride with humility. Every part of the Christmas story is filled with humble people. The most humble is God becoming Man for our salvation. Our next greatest model of this is Mary. Strive to devote yourself even greater to Mary. Then, the most overlooked saint, silent yet strong, protector, chaste and humble, St. Joseph. Find one of the many ways to dedicate yourself to him this year. We look to these great models who were with Jesus during His life to guide us. They have great wisdom to pass onto us.
We too have Jesus with us in the Word, living and effective, which will never pass away. In the Eucharist, an everlasting covenant of sacrifice, until He returns. Adoration in the Blessed Sacrament, a time to get away from the world and be with God face to face and just talk to Him. “Wherever two or three are gathered in my name I am there with you.” In prayer anywhere with anyone, Jesus is with us. In these places, with Jesus, time and eternity meet and they are the most powerful and useful times of our lives. Bring yourself to Jesus as He daily prepares a host for you, yearns to see your face in Adoration, and speaks to you directly through the Scriptures and in those He put around you. Take time to listen. Jesus is always trying to tell you something.
Today’s challenge: Pray and ask Jesus what is the best way to draw closer to Him in this new year.
Be a servant, become a saint!
#Christian YOLO
What reached out to me was when it said, “for my eyes have seen your salvation”. What this means to me is that Jesus is our salvation. He is the only way will get into heaven.
that jesus was sent do to save us and our sins and to tellus to do the rhit thang
We should do as God asks of us. Follow in Jesus’ footsteps and listen to God.
I believe in this scripture that they are saying the man will meet God before he dies and will have a holy life.
It is so important that we hold our faith close to us and never let go of what we have been taught. Today, many people have fallen away from the Church and have stopped going to Mass. We need to be an example for everyone out there by going to Mass and by setting an example for those around us and, maybe someday, our kids.
Simeon tells Mary that a sword will pierce her heart. Even though she was not the one who had to dies on a cross for us, she still had to suffer seeing her Son suffer. We need to love our mothers even when we are hurting because they suffer seeing us hurt. They care about us and love us and we should do the same for them.
In this gospel, SImeon and Anne see Jesus in the temple for his presentation. These two people are great examples of how we should search and wait for Jesus. We should be as eager as them to finally see our Lord and Savior. They have been waiting their whole lives just to see the face of Jesus. Once we do find Jesus, then we will have true peace.
Today´s scripture reading is very truthful in the sense of us. I think it was trying to tell me that we can´t run away or hid from Jesus. He will always, always be able to find us. There is NO possible way to run away from Him. So just stop trying. Instead, come humbly and summit your worries and problems to the Lord. He will never get mad or angry. He will never leave our side, ever. So, lets start today and try to come to him through the day with our stresses.
God became a man to help us fight the Devil. He gave us role models. He gave us perfect people to look up to so we could know how to be holy. Jesus and Mary are our examples. We can’t say we don’t know how to fight temptation because we do know. We know Jesus. It’s hard to fight off the devil because Jesus is divine and we aren’t. We’re human, human sinners. We have to take the examples that God has given us so that we can get to Heaven.
When we are baptized, we are also consecrated to the Lord, and just upon seeing Jesus, Simeon started praying to God, proclaiming about how he is now able to die because he has seen the Christ of the Lord, and said that a sword would pierce Mary’s heart. Jesus is so holy that someone who was righteous and devout worshipped Him upon seeing Him.
I think God is telling me to listen to what he is telling me either through prayer or by reading the bible. Simeon listened to what God had told him and he told Mary and it was true. A sword did pierce her heart.
A phrase that stuck out to me is Now, Master, you may let your servant go in peace, according to your word, for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you prepared in the sight of all the peoples a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and glory for your people Israel. I like this phrase because it means that with God we are ready to come to his father in heaven and live with him for eternal life.
In today’s reading it shows tradition and how our faith is different and how religions have changed over time. But through our religion which was created we have grown and shaped the way the mass is celebrated now and how we pray it hasn’t changed much but at the same time it has.
Could you imagine being Mary and this man comes up to her and tells her this. What would you do because i would doubt that all of that is true. I wouldn’t believe him but look what happened she knew it was true and accepted it. That’s crazy but honestly she was so strong to know what the future was and to just accept it.
Jesus came into this world for us. He died for us. Everything he’s done, he’s done for all of us. There were many people who knew that he was coming and they waited years for a glimpse of him but we can see him everyday and take that for granted. We can receive him in holy communion everyday but we go the bare minimum of going on Sundays. We need to be grateful for all the Trinity has done for us. How can you be thankful?
The scripture is telling us about Jesus being brought into the temple and Simeon telling Mary that her heart will be pierced 7 times and told all of these great things that Jesus was going to do.
“and you yourself a sword will pierce thy heart so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.” Mary is so brave in the bible and should be a great symbol of one she said yes to the angel when she knew she could very well be killed for carrying that baby (Jesus). After she was told a swords will pierce thy heart she didn’t cower she took in this information and carried on caring for and protecting a young Jesus. That’s why she should be a great symbol of courage and bravery.
40 days after His birthday, Christ was presented in the temple. God promised a man named simeon that he would not die until he had seen the lord. Mary and joseph presented Jesus, now it is time to present ourselves to God.
8 days after his birthday
Simeon told mary that her heart will be pierced 7 times with swords. Jesus teaches us how to fight the Devil by increasing our faith with the Scriptures, fasting, praying, and replacing our pride with humility. Every part of the Christmas story is filled with humble people. The most humble is God becoming Man for our salvation. Our next greatest model of this is Mary. Strive to devote yourself even greater to Mary.
There is nothing that Jesus wouldn’t do for us. He DIED on the cross for our sins, and yet people still are losing faith. Jesus would for to the moon and to Saturn for us. Jesus has an infinity amount of love for us.
Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, awaiting the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. Simeon was dedicated to knowing God and loving him.
We need to be more humble and realise that all we have is because of God. We need to pray more as a group and family because God said “Whenever 2 or more are gathered in my name I am in their presence,” So we need to pray. We need to do what God tells us like how Simon told Mary a sword will pierce her heart.
Jesus was also human/ a baby we have to remember that. He basically just got baptized like we all did when we were little babies being baptized. Simeon also foretold that Mary would have a sword pierced in her heart. Also told her that Jesus would be the one responsible for the rise and fall of many in Israel. My favorite part of the scripture is this, “Now, Master, you may let your servant go
in peace, according to your word,
for my eyes have seen your salvation,
which you prepared in the sight of all the peoples.
God is telling us to listen to him in prayer, listening to God and talking to him is prayer, something we should be doing everyday to grow closer to God. When we grow closer to him we have a better relation with him.
Simeon wanted to see the face of Jesus so badly that he asked God to keep him alive till he saw the lord. The second Simeon saw Jesus he knew that he was looking at God. He says “Now, Master, you may let your servant go in peace, according to your word,for my eyes have seen your salvation,which you prepared in the sight of all the peoples: a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and glory for your people Israel.” he’s talking to God and saying this is the true God I have seen him, now I may die.
The phrase that stuck out to me most was, a time to get away from the world and be with God face to face and just talk to Him. “Wherever two or three are gathered in my name I am there with you.” Really showing being with God is out of this world. Also, we learned that Mary got her heart pierced so many other thoughts may be revealed of many hearts.
I cant even imagine being Mary and having someone tell me that my heart would be pierced 7 times i probably wouldn’t believe it if I’m being honest but Mary did and she let the will of God do his part and she was there every step of the way
He died for us he died for sinners He knew that we will sin and he still died for us everything he’s done has been for us sinners he gave us eternal life in heaven he loves us and knows that we will sin and he forgives.
I think that it was interesting that Anna was always in the temple, fasting day and night. wouldn’t she have children? what about food
? this calls to me because you don´t see many people doing that today.
Mary is a strong woman. I think it would be hard to just lean on God completely and not worry about what is going to happen in two minutes or two years.
Our faith is so important to have to we dont forget about Jesus
What stuck out to me is that Jesus teaches us how to fight the Devil by increasing our faith with the Scriptures, fasting, praying, and replacing our pride with humility.I chose this because sometimes i struggle to fight the devil when all i need to do is talk to Jesus instead. Another thing that stuck out to me was Take time to listen. Jesus is always trying to tell you something. This stuck out to me because i think i need to talk to Jesus more.
I think today I learned about the second coming because Simeon saw Jesus so now he could die and go to Heaven. So what Jesus is telling us is that once we see him again He will bring everyone else up to Heaven.
Mary is the strongest person I know. She would do anything to protect somebody even her son or just a little puppy. She is too good for the world.
and you and I, she said yes at the foot of the cross when Jesus asked her to be our spiritual mother
Jesus is with us and we have to strive to be worthy of being in his presence. We have to pray and listen to him, be willing to do what he asks and be prepared for him to come.
Mary is a great model of holiness for us. When Mary was told
“and you yourself a sword will pierce thy heart so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”
She was probably scared or worried but she stayed strong through her whole life for us and Jesus.
It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Christ of the Lord.” Anna never left the temple, but worshiped night and day with fasting and prayer.
this stuck out to me because even little things have a big impact
A phrase that stuck out to me is Now, Master, you may let your servant go in peace, according to your word, for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you prepared in the sight of all the peoples a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and glory for your people Israel. This one stuck out to me because i feel like when Simone saw Jesus immediately Simone knew it was Jesus, so when Simone saw Jesus Simone told God that he had seen His son and was ready to go to Heaven
A phrase that stuck out to me is “Now, Master, you may let your servant go in peace, according to your word, for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you prepared in the sight of all the peoples a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and glory for your people Israel”. I like this because to me it means that with God we are ready to come to him in heaven and live with him with eternal life
We need to trust God and everything he is trying to tell us and should follow his plan just as Mary did. She is an example to us and how we should follow God’s will and trust in him.
One thing that had me thinking for a while was when simeon said, “Behold, this child is destined
for the fall and rise of many in Israel”. To be honest, if i had some random guy ive never seen before say that to me about my infant son, i would just think he was on something crazy, but Mary and Joseph listened to the man and took into consideration what he said. To me, that takes alot of patience and faith in God.
What God is trying to say is that life of anything is important. We should take care of life. That also means that we shouldn’t see death personally or acknowledge that death is a good thing.
I was surprised when I heard that Anna never left the temple because it is hard for me to just go to Mass on Sunday, let alone never leaving. We fight the Devil by fasting, praying and replacing our pride with humility. The Christmas story is filled with humble people with the most humble being God becoming man. The next model of humility is Mary and then there is St. Joseph. We need to look to these models to guide us because they have great wisdom.
Often when I think of God, I forget that He is present in us. God is present in us as the Holy Spirit, and He interprets for us. He has been in us ever since our baptism, and He stays with us. When we sin we push ourselves away from God, and when we go to confession it ´ s like we get a fresh start. Sin is like a band-aid that we rip off when we go to confession. We put the band-aid on so that we can feel better, but band-aids only last for a little while. God is forever.
We need to worship the Lord day and night every day. Once we start praying to the Lord we will know Him better so that we may grow in our faith. I we are struggling with something we have Him to turn to because he is always there for us.
We are not the ones to determine our destiny, but God is. He has chosen a path for us and His path is what will happen, but we must choose whether to willingly follow His path for us. When we follow God’s plan with love in our hearts, we will never see death, but go to Heaven when we die.
I feel like that just as Anna and Simeon saw and knew that the child was Jesus Christ, that we too should learn to recognize Jesus in our own daily life. Whether that be in the beauty of the weather, the beauty in nature, or the kindness that we see daily, to understand and to recognize that that is Jesus working in our lives. He is still amongst us. Maybe not phisically, but spiritually.
Today’s scripture passage is telling us that everything Jesus has ever done was all for us. He didn’t do it for Himself, He did it for His creation. God loves us more than we will ever know or be able to understand.
“Now, Master, you may let your servant go
in peace, according to your word,
for my eyes have seen your salvation,
which you prepared in the sight of all the peoples:
a light for revelation to the Gentiles,
and glory for your people Israel.”
This scripture shows us that we have been saved by Christ, we dont have to worry about being saved, because we already are. All we have to do is trust in Jesus and follow him on the path to heaven.
Simeon and Anne waited to see Jesus. We should follow their example and want to see God.
“Now, Master, you may let your servant go in peace, according to your word, for my eyes have seen your salvation.” This stood out to me because some of us have experienced God and some of us haven’t. I think it’s saying that for those who have experienced God, that they need to spread the word of God to those who haven’t experienced Him yet.
Mary wasn’t afraid of what Simeon said. She already said yes to God. We should be strong just as she was, even in tough times.
I think that this is saying that we should always do what God asks of us. There will be so many great things that come out of doing the right thing that he would ask of us. Instead of turning to satan and doing what he is asking turn to God and do what God asks.
This scripture is about how we need to stay faithful to God. We must know that even if life is rough we must push through and keep faith with God. Because in the end we will meet him again.
when we are baptized we are concecrated in the lord and are given a fresh slate. but to be truly baptized is to be presented before your birth in which we are spiritually baptized then baptized after birth.
Something that stuck out to me in this gospel was when they presented Jesus in the temple. Jesus tells us to not be scared to show your love to God and to present him. Which means dont care if anyone laughs or makes fun of you for believing in Jesus Christ. But in reality there gonna the ones crying and your be the one laughing because they didn’t believe in God then on judgment day they dont go to heaven.
as jesus was presented in the temple Mary and Joseph met Simeon, he was a prophet and he tells them all about what Jesus will do with his life . SImeon was promised by God that he would meet the messiah be fore he died and that prophecy was fulfilled right here. Simeon tells Mary that a sword will pierce her heart and this is one of her seven sorrows
Simeon was a preacher and he was promised he wouldn’t die until he had seen Christ. He was waiting for Jesus to arrive so he could meet him. After he met Jesus he was ready to die for He had met the son of God. We are all missionaries of Christ and we should be anxious and ready for when the Lord comes to save us.
God is always with us and we can not run away from Him. God has a effect on you like He does with Simoen and Anna in the Scripture today
in our lives we need to be more like Simeon in the way we search for Christ. we need to actively seek God and his graces that he gives us. We also need to present ourselves to god in a proper way. When we go to church on Sunday and Saturday afternoons we need to be free of sin to take Jesus in.
What stuck out to me was Jesus is always trying to tell you something. This stuck out to me because it means Jesus is always there for us.
We should always be faithful to God and trust in him. God has a plan for you.
I think the Scripture is saying Jesus is our savior. Jesus saves us. If we were the last person on Earth Jesus would still die on a cross to save us. Jesus gave up his life so we could live a better one.
In today’s scripture, we read the Presentation in the Temple. This is where SImeon reveals that Mary will suffer great pain, the 7 sorrows of Mary, because of Jesus. I think this in itself is very sad, because Mary has to raise Jesus knowing that she will suffer greatly.
“The favor of God was upon him” God’s favor is on us as well. He is always loving us, even when we are sinning and not listening to him. He never gets mad, he’s just disappointed. We need to try and be worthy of his favor.
I think the scripture is saying we must be devout in faith and be patient as Simeon was. If we have great patience in the Lord, great things will happen. If we are devout we will see our Savior once more.
This scripture is talking about the presentation in the temple and how Simenon already knew that it was Our Savior and Jesus Christ and he fast and everything he was like almost grateful that he had seen Jesus because he had waited to see when the Savior would come because he had been waiting all his life
The thing that I thought was interesting was when it said, “for my eyes have seen your salvation”, which means that Jesus is always our salvation. He is the only way will get into heaven.
I think at the start of this Scripture Jesus is living His life just as we did and did ordinary things young kids did when they were first born. In my mind this sounds like it’s saying that everyone is equal in more ways than you could imagine. God could have mad Jesus an amazing strong human being that bows to no one but no Jesus was just an ordinary man following the will of God.
“and you yourself a sword will pierce” Was a phrase that stuck out to me. It says that a sword will pierce Mary’s heart. That symbolizes a great sorrow in her life. She figured out that sometimes following the Will of God was hard, that it would take a lot of dedication. To me, this can be a lesson to us to follow God, and ask Him for help when we are struggling with it. God knows us, and he wants to help you, and to make your life easier. You just have to listen to Him.
It is said that when we are done worshiping God we can finally rest in peace, but first we have to learn how to pray everyday and be able to not put anything before God.
The great thing I love about this scripture is that we know that Simeon was waiting to meet Jesus. He had been praying and praying hoping that he would get to meet the savior of the world. I think this greatly resembles how God has a plan and a will for us to carry out. It’s a beautiful story to express this with.
I think this scripture is telling me to listen more closely to what God is telling and pay more attention to him. I think he wants to lead me down the right path and make sure I do not get lost in other not important things.
The scripture today, I think that Simeon and anne we should be like them wanting to find out about Jesus knowing who He is and being able to know what He can do for us. We also need to be able to be praying and talking to Jesus everyday and that is how we will get to know Him better.
Today´s scripture reading is very truthful in the sense of us. I think it was trying to tell me that we can´t run away or hid from Jesus. He will always, always be able to find us. There is NO possible way to run away from Him.
“and you yourself a sword will pierce” Was a phrase that stuck out to me. It says that a sword will pierce Mary’s heart. That symbolizes a great sorrow in her life. She figured out that sometimes following the Will of God was hard, that it would take a lot of dedication. To me, this can be a lesson to us to follow God, and ask Him for help when we are struggling with it. God knows us, and he wants to help you, and to make your life easier. You just have to listen to Him, He can help you.
“and you yourself a sword will pierce” Was a phrase that stuck out to me. It says that a sword will pierce Mary’s heart. That symbolizes a great sorrow in her life. She figured out that sometimes following the Will of God was hard, that it would take a lot of dedication. To me, this can be a lesson to us to follow God, and ask Him for help when we are struggling with it. God knows us, and he wants to help you, and to make your life easier. You just have to listen to Him, He can help.
Our faith is so important. We have to be aware that if we dont keep spreading our faith to other people there will be no more faith. Spreading the word of the Lord is so important and so magical. you are spreading the love of God to the world and the world really needs the love of Jesus..
It’s kind of crazy how all these people already recognize that this is the savior. He seems to give off a powerful essence wherever he goes, or it’s god telling them that He is the savior.
So when I was reading Mr. Geortz’s reflection I saw that he said we should say, “Come Holy Spirit.” We might be really good at math or reading, and know everything there is to know about school, but I will promise you one thing, you don’t know the way of life. That is where the Holy Spirit comes in. If we have the H.S. leading us day in and day out we will follow the path to life in luxury. The H.S. will take us on the beautiful route of things (enjoyable and fun). Invite the H.S. in your life, I dare you, you will never regret it.
I think GOd is trying to tell us that He will always be there for us we are his first priority He will choose us over anything but we are all equals
“And you shall be pierced by the sword” Mary was perfect, yet she endured pain, as well as Jesus. I think that we seem to think that if God was really in our life, everything would be perfect, and there would be no obstacles. Yet, God was in Mary’s life and She endured pain for us. We need to remember that with Jesus Christ,Our problems will not go away, But we will go through them with GOD on our side. We need to remember that God is all powerful, and nothing is impossible for him.
“He had been told by the Holy Spirit.” It shows me that people these days are too blind to see what’s right in front of them, God, Everlasting life, we just can’t seem to see it.
“Come, Holy Spirit”
Those three words are very powerful when ever you say them the Holy Spirit come to you and it protects you.
i love this because whatever you ask from Jesus you shall receive unless it’s something not good for you. Jesus died on the cross for us and all he wants us to do is to share the word of God and pray every day.He will never give up on you.
The most humble is God becoming Man for our salvation. Our next greatest model of this is Mary. Strive to devote yourself even greater to Mary. Then, the most overlooked saint, silent yet strong, protector, chaste and humble, St. Joseph. No Saint boasts about themselves and saws I am a Saint in everyone’s faces they are humble about it and we should be humble about our faith but still preach it and if people asks questions answer them just don’t boast about it and say I am better just tell them why it is important if they ask why do you believe.
I think that scripture is saying we need to give our life up to God. We need to not forget about God and that we wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for God. God saved us and we need to repay him for his good deeds.
“Jesus teaches us how to fight the Devil by increasing our faith with the Scriptures, fasting, praying, and replacing our pride with humility.” I think that means by going to mass every Sunday and by praising the Lord we are pretty much fighting the devil. And by doing all those things we are protected from satans temptations.
No one likes to hear bad news. If it’s a family member that died or if you’re sick either way you don’t want to hear that. In this reading I think of Mary hearing that her son is going to die. We all know death will come to us at some point but no one likes to hear that you or someone you love is going to die. Yet still Mary was told she would exeperince piercings through her heart, but she handled it better than anyone I know would have. What I got from this reading is- Pain is a part of life and you can’t stop that you just have to appreciate the good things while you can.
God will never stop loving us even when we try to run from Him. Jesus is our salvation and the only way for us to get to Heaven is through Him.
“Now, Master, you may let your servant go in peace, according to your word, for my eyes have seen your salvation.” This phrase stuck out to me because after Simeon saw Jesus he was ready to die and go to Heaven. He knew there was nothing else on Earth that he needed to do. He just wanted to see God all the time.
Today scripture said to me that we should follow the Lord and do as he asks of us. In scripture even Jesus follows the law of God. I we follow God and listen to him we will do amazing things. The holy spirit will lead us to heaven we just have to follow him.
Jesus teaches us how to fight the Devil by increasing our faith with the Scriptures, fasting, praying, and replacing our pride with humility.These four things will get people to heaven scriptures fasting prayer and humility what think is cool is that God this unfathomable power had so much humility to become a human like us.An that he saved us even though humanity messed up so many times and desecrated him.
What stuck out to me is that we have word within us and its living. This stuck out to me because if we have the word within us we can proclaim it to everyone and even if they don’t listen its still living within you and as long as the word lives within you, you have God within you too.
Simeon told Mary that her heart will be pierced 7 times with swords, or sorrows. She suffered through all of those tragedies and watched her son die naked on cross. If Mary can do this, so can we. We don’t have to be perfect, we just have to trust in God and know that our earthly lives will be over sooner than later. The eternal reward is God’s heavenly Kingdom of Heaven.
“We are filled with the same Holy Spirit as Simeon and Anna to guide us each day.” That line hit me. We don’t have a different Holy Spirit in us, we all have the same Holy Spirit that was given from God. I knew this for a long time but the line just stuck out.
We need to have strong faith in God. While Catholic life is hard, it helps us obtain our ultimate goal, Heaven. Even when we want to give up, we have to press on.
I think this is telling us to follow Jesus and he will show us what is right
“for my eyes have seen your salvation,” The lord is very merciful. God saved us from our sins and he will continue to save us every time we go to confession. We need God, so we need to stop denying him and open our eyes to receive his grace.
What stuck out to me is when he said “for my eyes have seen your salvation” God forgives us for everything we do if we confess it and try to do better and when we do so God sees our salvation as well.
Jesus died for us and I feel like we are still not gratfull. People always say that there is not enough evidence ,but won’t say what is. We need to open our eyes and spread the good news. When we open our eyes and fully relize what He did for us we will be much happier.