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Celebrate Candlemas at home – watch the service online at 10am on Sunday 31st January
This week is the festival of Candlemas or the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple. Please have a candle ready to light during the service as part of our celebrations (we would usually have a candlelit procession in church on this day). As usual the service will be broadcast live at 10am on Facebook and be available to watch thereafter on YouTube. Visit this link to access the service on Facebook (you do not need to be a Facebook member…
Stations of the Nativity 8. The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple – Luke 2:22-35
Listen to this in audio form here: https://anchor.fm/bcjj/embed/episodes/Stations-of-the-Nativity-8-Jesus-is-presented-in-the-Temple-eo2mn4 When the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as it is written in the law of the Lord, ‘Every firstborn male shall be designated as holy to the Lord’), and they offered a sacrifice according to what is stated in the law of the Lord, ‘a pair of turtle-doves or two young pigeons.’ Now there…