On February 2, forty days after Christmas, the Church commemorates the Presentation of Our Lord and the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Remember this day in your daily prayer at home.
The lessons are 1 Samuel 1.21-28; Hebrews 2.14-18; St. Luke 2.22-32.
Collect of the Day: Almighty and ever-living God, we humbly beseech Thy Majesty that, as Thine only-begotten Son was this day presented in the Temple in the substance of our flesh, so we may be presented unto Thee with pure and clean hearts; by the same Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord…
