On February 2, the Greek Orthodox Church celebrates the Feast of the Presentation of Christ to the Temple. The Church also refers to this Feast as the Synaxis (or meeting) of our Lord in the temple.

This feast, celebrated on February 2, is known in the Orthodox Church as The Presentation of Christ in the Temple. Another name for the feast is The Meeting of our Lord. Roman Catholic and Protestant ...

The idea of blood sacrifice, the sacrifice of an animal or animals to a deity, does not appeal greatly to our tastes. It feels somehow primitive and inappropriate. And yet, the account we have just ...

It is hard to imagine being human without sin. We don't need global politics to remind us that, implicit in so much of our behaviour, is that deep instinct to self-aggrandisement and self-preservation ...

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Today’s Sunday Gospel will be our last Gospel reading for the Year 2008. It is about the Presentation of the baby Jesus in the Temple that you can read in your Bibles if you turned to Luke 2:22-40.