The Meeting of the Lord in the Temple
Feast · lord
- 2 February (Roman Catholic Church)
- 2 February (Eastern Orthodox Church)
- Meshir 8 (Coptic Orthodox Church)
Forty days after the Nativity, the infant brought to the Temple and taken up in the arms of Symeon. Called the Meeting in the East and the Presentation — Candlemas — in the West.
After The Typikon, ch. 48, the Menaion — 2 February, «Срѣ́тенїе гдⷭ҇а бг҃а и҆ сп҃са на́шегѡ і҆и҃са хрⷭ҇та̀», p. 441.
Commemorating
- Jesus commemorates
- Mary, mother of Jesus with
- Presentation in the Temple commemorates
- Simeon the God-receiver commemorates
- Anna the Prophetess commemorates
Where this is recorded
- Roman Catholic Church — the day, after Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the Calendar
- Eastern Orthodox Church — the day, after The Typikon, ch. 48, the Menaion — 2 February, «Срѣ́тенїе гдⷭ҇а бг҃а и҆ сп҃са на́шегѡ і҆и҃са хрⷭ҇та̀», p. 441; the rank, after A Manual of the Orthodox Church's Divine Services, pp. 34-35, The Twelve Feasts
- Coptic Orthodox Church — the day, after Le Synaxaire arabe jacobite (rédaction copte), PO XI.5, p. 803 — 8 Amchir (2 février); the rank, after Kalendarium manuale utriusque ecclesiae orientalis et occidentalis (vol. II), II p. 693, «Festa minora similiter septem sunt» — Circumcisionis, primi miraculi, Ingressus in templum, Coenae, Dominica Thomae, Ingressus in Aegyptum, Transfigurationis
Glosses
- The Twelve Great Feasts, and the one that is not among them The Byzantine year is framed by twelve feasts — the Dodekaorton — running from the Nativity of the Theotokos on 8 September to her Dormition on 15 August, some fixed to a date and some moving with Pascha. They are not…