S10E10: The Presentation of the Temple

Today's Daily Decade, on the Feast of St. Sabbas, offers prayers for Anthony, who is struggling with depression and anxiety, afflictions all too common in this modern world. We beg the intercession of St. John of the Cross, who had such intimate knowledge of the darkness we experience on our journey to knowing God more perfectly. Today's reflection is on the two-fold Presentation in the Temple - the return of the Ark of the Covenant in the person of the Blessed Mother and the fulfilment of the purpose of the Temple with the coming of Christ, making manifest the salvation of the whole world and the humble sacrifice of the Blessed Virgin Mary.