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Today’s Feast of the Sacrifice of the Lord, popularly called “Groundhog Day”, offers us two facts. Above all, it is a memory of Christmas, it is the symbolic end of the Christmas circuit – a kind of echo of Christmas.\u00a0It is a memory of how the Virgin Mary brought Jesus to the Jerusalem temple.\u00a0We will remind you of that first.\u00a0But today’s holiday is also a great task for each of us: We are to be the light of the world.\u00a0And so we want to realize that we are supposed to be that light, to radiate, warm and aw, taken new life. The Virgin Mary had baby Jesus all to herself for forty days.\u00a0And now she came with Joseph through the east gate to the temple of Jerusalem to fulfill the prescription of the law of Moses.\u00a0The priest comes and leads the mothers in line to the temple.\u00a0There he stretches his hands over the children and announces: Every firstborn boy is dedicated to the Lord.\u00a0He mentions how in Egypt the heathen firstborn boys perished,\u00a0but the boys of the chosen nation of Israel were saved, and now they are to thank for it.\u00a0Joseph handed over two baby pigeons and, like everyone else, dropped five shekels of silver into the temple treasury.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ceremony in the Jerusalem temple is over, and the women are leaving. The Virgin Mary came out last.\u00a0And in front of her stands an old man.\u00a0Her hair is white as snow, and she reaches out to her with her shaking hands. The Mother of God knew that at this moment the whole world was reaching out its hands to Christ the Lord.\u00a0The whole world is waiting for redemption.\u00a0Maria handed her child to the venerable old man.\u00a0And the old Simeon first looked to the sky and thanked the Lord for waiting so many years and not in vain.\u00a0And then he looked at the child and uttered the prophetic words: God, I can die now.\u00a0I saw the Savior.\u00a0He will be a light to the entire world and bring glory to his nation. And an eighty-four-year-old old woman, the prophetess Anna, daughter of Phanuel, approached.\u00a0She also praised the Lord.\u00a0And it seemed to the Virgin Mary that two people were standing there who had been expelled from Paradise – Adam and Eve. They stand there and give thanks that rescue is coming.\u00a0They thank you for<\/span><\/p>\n

Now the old man Simeon turned to the Virgin Mary.\u00a0What does he want to say to her?\u00a0Simeon predicted: This child of yours will be accepted by others and will be for their enlistment. But others will stand against that child – to their destruction. And you will observe and experience all this, and a sword will be dug into your soul. Maria knows that.\u00a0The others will rejoice, and she – Seven Pain – will cry.\u00a0Redemption will come to the second, and she – the Seven Painful One – will experience pain.\u00a0The others will have peace and she – the Seven Pain – will be pierced by a sword.\u00a0Yes, the Seven-Pained Mother of God will stand under the cross of her Son, she will not be able to give her Son even a sip of water when he cries “I am thirsty”!\u00a0She will stand under his cross and will not be able to hold back the spear with which they will open Christ the Lord’s Divine Heart.\u00a0But at that moment both hearts will be pierced.\u00a0One spear and the other,<\/span><\/p>\n

And so they left the Jerusalem temple and walked around Herod’s palace.\u00a0He will be the first to take the dagger to pierce Christ the Lord.\u00a0And Mary will run again at night – just like on Christmas Day.\u00a0Herod will be the first, but not the only one.\u00a0His nation will rise against Christ. The world will eventually rise against him. But his cross will shine triumphantly in heaven when he comes in his glory.\u00a0Yes, today’s holiday is the last memory of Christmas, but also the first harbinger of Easter.\u00a0The firstborn sons in Egypt were killed on the Passover.\u00a0And this child is already preparing for his Easter.\u00a0That is the event of today in the life of the Virgin Mary.\u00a0Today’s holiday is also a task for each of us.\u00a0Christ the Lord is the Light of the world, and he commands us all – be the light of the world too! And we ask: How can we spread this light of Christ?\u00a0To that end, we will tell a small story from life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Friends invited a lonely young man to come to their house on Christmas Day.\u00a0They had a cottage on the hill not far from the bus.\u00a0After the festive dinner, they were supposed to go to midnight mass together.\u00a0And so the young man set off on his journey.\u00a0It was afternoon and the sun was shining.\u00a0He went uphill, first through the forest, then the forest stopped, but the weather changes quickly in the mountains.\u00a0And suddenly the wind blew a blizzard, heavy snowflakes stuck to his eyes, he waded through the snow up to his knees, sweating with fatigue and fear. He thought, “What if I fit in here, what if no one finds me?”<\/span><\/p>\n

He started calling for help, but no one heard him.\u00a0The young man remembered God: “Lord, you are my light and my salvation.\u00a0Please don’t leave me!\u201d And the blizzard and the white milky mist disappeared as quickly as they had come.\u00a0He saw the hill and the illuminated windows.\u00a0He had a wonderful Christmas Day.\u00a0Yes, people can get lost, not only in the mountains. People can also go astray in their lives.\u00a0May they always find someone to show them the way? May they always find the light of Christ? Let Christ the Lord be our light.\u00a0May the Virgin Mary be our star, as it is said in one poem: “Mary, Mother, you have been in me – like a starfish to a swimmer at sea.”\u00a0– Just as that little star shines and delights – the one who prays and the one who sins.” Let us be the light of the world and let us all meet one day when the eternal light will shine.<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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