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  1. Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

    The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, celebrated annually on November 21st, commemorates the presentation of the Blessed Virgin as a child by her parents in the Temple in ...

  2. Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

    Saint of the Day for November 21. The Story of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Mary's presentation was celebrated in Jerusalem in the sixth century. A church was built there in honor of this mystery. The Eastern Church was more interested in the feast, but it does appear in the West in the 11th century.

  3. Presentation of Mary

    Presentation of Mary. The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, known in the East as The Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple, is a liturgical feast celebrated on November 21 [1] by the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and some Anglo-Catholic Churches. The feast is associated with an event recounted not in the New Testament, but in ...

  4. Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

    Liturgical Feasts 21 November. The Memorial of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Temple recalls - according to the apocryphal gospels, the day on which Mary, while still a child, was brought to the temple in Jerusalem to be offered to God. The Church wants to emphasize not so much the historical event in itself, of which ...

  5. The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

    The feast of the presentation of Mary dates back to the 6th century in the East and the 15th century in the West. It is based on an ancient tradition that says Mary was taken to the temple in Jerusalem when she was 3-years-old and dedicated to God. What we celebrate on this day is the fact that God chose to dwell in Mary in a very special way.

  6. The Feast of the Presentation

    The Feast of the Presentation. According to the Church's liturgical calendar, the feast held on Feb. 2 each year is in honor of the Presentation of the Lord. Some Catholics recall this day as the feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary because such was the feast day named until the 1969 changes in the Church's calendar.

  7. Candlemas

    Candlemas, also known as the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus Christ, the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or the Feast of the Holy Encounter, is a Christian feast day commemorating the presentation of Jesus at the Temple by Joseph and Mary.It is based upon the account of the presentation of Jesus in Luke 2:22-40.According to the Old Testament rules in Leviticus 12, a ...

  8. Presentation of the Virgin Mary

    Feast of the Annunciation. Presentation of the Virgin Mary, feast celebrated in the Roman Catholic and Eastern churches on November 21. It was held in the Eastern church in the 6th century but did not become widely accepted in the West until the 15th century. The pope St. Pius V (1566-72) suppressed it, but in 1585 Pope Sixtus V reestablished ...

  9. Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

    Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, FEAST of THE.—The Protoevangel of James, the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, the Gospel of the Nativity of Mary, and other apocryphal writings (Walker, "Apocryph. Gosp.", Edinburgh, 1873) relate that Mary, at the age of three, was brought by her parents to the Temple, in fulfilment of a vow, there to be ...

  10. The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

    It is an ancient tradition, that the Blessed Virgin Mary was thus solemnly offered to God in the temple in her infancy. [1] This festival of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin, or, as it is often called by the Greeks, the entrance of the Blessed Virgin into the Temple, is mentioned in the most ancient Greek Menologies extant.

  11. The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

    The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary first made its way to the West through monasteries in Southern Italy in the ninth century; by the 11th century, it had spread to other locales but was by no means universally celebrated. Under the influence of a French nobleman, Philippe de Mazières, Pope Gregory XI began celebrating the ...

  12. Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Preparing to Become the Mother

    When did the Feast of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary originate? The celebration of the feast is believed to have originated in 543 with the dedication of a basilica built by the Emperor Justinian to honor Mary. The first documented celebration of the feast was in an 11th-century calendar of the Byzantine Emperor Basil II.

  13. The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

    2016. Today we celebrate the memorial of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Church tradition holds that at a young age, Mary was presented to the Lord in the temple by her parents Joachim and Anna. It was there, in the temple, that Mary was dedicated to the Lord and made her vow of chastity. She lived and grew up in the temple until ...

  14. Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

    This should not be confused with the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus on February 2,when Joseph and Mary brought Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem 40 days after His birth. The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is celebrated annually on November 21st, and commemorates the presentation of the Blessed Virgin as a child by her ...

  15. Why do we celebrate Mary's presentation?

    Mary's choice for God. The Presentation of Mary also highlights the fact Mary chooses God at this point in her life, even if at such a young age. On Dec. 8 the Church celebrates Mary's preservation from Original sin, called her Immaculate Conception. We could say that God chose Mary, as he foresaw the merits of Christ's cross and applied ...

  16. The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

    The feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary signifies the lifelong and total devotion that Mary made to God through her Immaculate Conception. She listened to the voice of God while still in her childhood and agreed to become the temple of Jesus Christ, the Son of God .

  17. How Do We Know About the Presentation of Mary?

    We celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord annually on Feb. 2. The Presentation of Mary, however, is not found in Scripture. Instead, we learn about Mary's presentation from accounts ...

  18. Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

    It was celebrated in the presence of the cardinals (1372) with an office accommodated from the office chanted by the Greeks. In 1373 it was adopted in the royal chapel at Paris, 1418 at Metz, 1420 at Cologne. Pius II granted (1460) the feast with a vigil to the Duke of Saxony. It was taken up by many dioceses, but at the end of the Middle Ages ...

  19. Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

    The Protoevangel of James, the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, the Gospel of the Nativity of Mary, and other apocryphal writings (Walker, 'Apocryph. Gosp.', Edinburgh, 1873) relate that Mary, at the age of three, was brought by her parents to the Temple, in fulfillment of a vow, there to be ...

  20. Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

    almighty and eternal God, and to praise, bless, and glorify your name. on the feast day of the Blessed ever-Virgin Mary. For by the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit. she conceived your Only Begotten Son, and without losing the glory of virginity, brought forth into the world the eternal Light, Jesus Christ our Lord.

  21. Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

    In 1953, Pope Pius XII tied this memorial of the Presentation of Mary to an annual commemoration of the World Day of Cloistered Life. This sprang from the belief that the Blessed Virgin was presented in the Temple as a child, living out her childhood in prayer and solitude, a model for those in the cloister. In 1974, Pope Saint Paul VI wrote a ...

  22. The Feast of the Presentation of Mary: Popular Piety or Historical

    November 21st is the feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. According to tradition, the Blessed Virgin Mary was consecrated to God as a young child and was given by her holy parents, St. Anne and St. Joachim, to live in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. This special feast day honoring this event appeared in the East much earlier than it did in the West.

  23. Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

    0. On November 21, we celebrate the memorial of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, observed by the universal Church since the 16th century. This day celebrates a moment, like her birth, we don't know much about historically. The important thing to remember about this feast is the theme that Mary is the new Temple, in whom God has ...

  24. Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God

    The shepherds went in haste to Bethlehem and found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger. When they saw this, they made known the message that had been told them about this child. All who heard it were amazed by what had been told them by the shepherds. And Mary kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart.

  25. Visitation (Christianity)

    The feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is of medieval origin. In 1389 Pope Urban VI, hoping thereby to obtain an end to the Great Western Schism, inserted it at the urging of John of Jenstein, Archbishop of Prague, in the Roman Calendar, for celebration on July 2. In the Tridentine calendar, it was a Double.