It Is Well with My Soul: The Sacred Roots Annual 2022-2023

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T he S eason after E piphany

T he P resentation of the L ord February 2, 2023

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Epiphany affirms Jesus’s presence in the world as hope for all peoples. In him alone, God provides the light of his salvation, making known God’s grace to all peoples, even to the farthest corners of the earth.

TODAY’S THEME Jesus, God’s Salvation, Luke 2.22-40

When the time came for Mary’s purification according to the Law of Moses, she brought the babe Jesus to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord as the firstborn child. In Jerusalem there was a man named Simeon, righteous and devout, waiting for the coming of the Lord, filled with the Spirit, having been told that he would not die until he saw the Lord’s Christ. On coming into the temple, when Mary and Joseph were bringing the baby Jesus into the temple, Simeon took him up in his arms and blessed the Lord. He exclaimed that God was letting him depart in peace according to his word, for his eyes had seen his salvation, “prepared in the presence of all peoples, a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for your glory to your people Israel.”

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