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Happy Feast of the Presentation of Jesus, Candlemas, Purification/Churching of Mary! In this bonus episode, you'll learn a simple version of the Canticle of Simeon that is traditionally sung during the Mass for the feast, but can also be sung at night prayer throughout the year.
And when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male that opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”) and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the law of the Lord, “a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.” Now there was a man in Jerusal ...