Every Tuesday morning at 10am

Simply tune in on Zoom and enjoy a few moments of quiet, prayerful reflection as the week unfolds. It will last no longer than 10 minutes.

Meeting ID: 892 2955 4820 Passcode: 836488

A time to pause, pray, reflect and reconnect.

No preparation needed.

Time for conversation for those who can stay.

“….Waiting on God, learning to be passive in a way creative for your inner life, is not a question of thinking about God, but of growing in stillness. It has to do with prayer, and with music or from the simple contemplation of the world about you.” (Michael Mayne, ‘A Year Lost and Found’)

According to Luke’s gospel, Mary and Joseph took the baby Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem 40 days after his birth – both to complete Mary's ritual purification, but also to present their firstborn son to the Lord, in accordance with Jewish custom. Luke explicitly says that they opted for the route prescribed for poorer people, of sacrificing turtle doves or young pigeons while the more wealthy would sacrifice a lamb.

At the Temple they met the elderly prophet Simeon, who had been promised he would see the Lord's Christ before he died. He told Mary that her son would cause “the falling and rising of many in Israel”, a reference to how people would differ in their response to Jesus.

In the Spanish speaking world this feast is more usually referred to as ‘Candelaria’, or in English, ‘Candlemas’. This name derives from the custom of blessing and distributing candles in procession before the celebration of Mass on this day.

The picture shows the Candlemas procession in Cartagena, Colombia, February 2014