The Holy Spirit was upon him.

5TH DAY WITHIN THE OCTAVE OF THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD The Holy Spirit was upon him.  Today our Gospel leaps ahead from Jesus’ birth to forty days later, when Mary and Joseph presented their firstborn to the Lord. Simeon surely saw many families at the Temple that day,...

The Holy Spirit was upon him.

THE PRESENTATION OF THE LORD (FEAST) The Holy Spirit was upon him. One of the Church’s great mystics, St. Bridget of Sweden, once received a revelation from Mary about her Son, Jesus. “There is the same humility in my Son now,” Mary told her, “as there was when he was...