This weekend we celebrate the feast of Candlemas, when we remember Mary and Joseph taking Jesus to the temple 40 days after his birth, for Jesus to be presented and for Mary to be ritually purified. In this visit we hear the stories of Simeon and Anna meeting Jesus and seeing God’s promise reflected in and through him, small and fragile as he was.
We too are called to look for and remember God’s presence in the fragility of our human lives and world. We too are called to name, with gratitude and joy, places and people of hope, faith and peace: to notice light in the darkness, and love in the midst of fear; to notice God’s inbreaking and upwelling in the apparently insignificant and ordinary moments of our days…
