In the Temple, the Holy Family — Jesus, Mary, and Joseph — meet two elderly people, faithful keepers of God’s law: Simeon and Anna. That simple event contains a profound Christian symbolism ...

Sensitive to the promptings of the Holy Spirit, Simeon was ready to welcome God’s anointed one. Shaped by a lifetime of being present to God in worship, Anna recognized that the promise had arrived in ...

Vatican City, Feb 2, 2022 / 16:41 pm The amazed joy of Simeon and Anna at encountering and embracing Christ at the Temple is a virtue that consecrated religious should remember and imitate, the ...

Luke assigns Anna a place among the prophets (v ... s listening is one of the most tender scenes in Scripture: Simeon enters the temple to discover Mary and Joseph with their newborn.

The Gospels single out two people in particular: Simeon, a godly man from Jerusalem, and Anna, another prophet in the temple courts. Through their example, we see what it means to wait faithfully ...

“Hope is rekindled in hearts in the Temple of Jerusalem because Christ our hope has entered it,” he continued. The 88-year-old pontiff emphasized that both Simeon and Anna were people of ...

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It is a prompting of the Holy Spirit that brings Simeon to the Temple at the necessary hour; Anna has spent years constantly at prayer in the Temple. It was a life­time’s ex­­peri­ence of prayer that ...

the last word goes to Anna the prophetess. Though she is mentioned only once and given second status to Simeon in the temple, Luke provides details about her that suggest she was important to the ...