S9E10: The Presentation and the Law

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Raphael the Archangel, offers prayers for listener Michelangelo in his battle with sins of lust, and for all men struggling with this particular vice as we draw near to November. We beg the intercession of Ss. Anthony the Great and Mary of Egypt to aid these men, young and old, single and married, in this battle that they might lead pure lives. Today's reflection is about the Presentation in the Temple and Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary - acts which were required by the law of God for the nation of Israel, but which did not apply to Our Lord and Our Lady because they were both innately pure replacements for the Ark and the Law, but nevertheless fulfilled the law out of pure love for the Law of God because it was God's.