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<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>today the Gospel continues the account of the presentation of the Lord
in the Temple. </b></span>Why was the Temple so important for ancient Israel? In
the Temple, divinity and humanity embraced, and the human race was
brought back online with God.</span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">There
is more to the presentation story than the return of the Lord to his
Temple,
for <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>he comes to his Temple precisely in human form, indeed in the form
of a little baby. </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>The Son of God, having taken to himself a human
nature, is presented to the Father as a sacrifice, and thereby the human
race is set right.</b></span><br></span><br></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">God himself is forming us in the right worship of God. </span></span></span><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Ponder the significance of that truth.<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> This little baby </b></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:italic">is</span></b></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> the reconciliation of divinity and <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">humanity</span>. </b></span>He </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:italic">is</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> the very essence of Temple worship.</span></b></div>
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