02/02/2026

The Presentation of Jesus aka The Purification of Mary aka Candlemas

The three possible names for this feast that has been celebrated by the Roman Church for 1500 or so years in Europe are a reminder that the Institutional Churches that exist today are man-made constructs in this world. Even the date of Easter has been disputed by East and West and thus exist the differences in Ecclesiastical Calendars that are a feature of the Christian Disunity that still exists.

We can call the feast "the Purification" as for more than 2000 years after the Resurrection, the Law of Moses' concepts of ritual purity were still part of the "Church's" understanding of the the relationship between man and God. 

For centuries "Churching" was a liturgical ritual for all Catholic mothers forty days after giving birth. I can remember attending this ceremony with my own mother and father after the birth of my six years younger than I sister. The Incarnation, Nativity and Death of Jesus have banished all notions of the necessity for ritual bodily purity.  The  name "Candlemas" reminds us that candles were traditionally blessed today as Christ is the light of the world and that the Church was the throbbing  heart of European Culture and all of her festivals "celebrated" as much as Christmas still is.

IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT became man. The INCARNATION is a complete reset of creation. God is totally beyond comprehension but it has been revealed to us that 2000 years ago he chose to actually become a human being in the same flesh as the apex of his created material being, self-conscious, image and likeness "true man and true God"..

If I choose to click my mouse I can become aware of the vast array of Evil that mankind has always chosen to bring into the world. I am dumbfounded by the joy with which SIN has and is still welcomed and celebrated by so many billions of peoples and scream out to Our Father, "Why?". 

Although taught otherwise, I believe that Sin /Evil has a far greater power than we can imagine and that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is deeply hurt by each individual and  generation of mankind that still mocks him for allowing himself to be crucified. The utter pain of the Crucifixion still exists in the Resurrected heart of Jesus and thus Our Father still bears an ever-greater anguish.

The specific revelations made to Adam,  Noah, Abraham, Moses and David were known but not maintained even by Chosen People. God could have created us  as mere automatons absolutely incapable of sinning but because we are "image and likeness" he wants us to live by freely choosing "the way, the truth and the life" by returning the LOVE that is "IAMFTHERSONHOLYSPIRIT".

We are all still the potential "People of God" even though we are much more technically advanced than were Jesus and his Apostles. The souls that are our true conscious beings and that differentiate us  from the animal bodies out of which we evolved following God's plan, are still completely free to rule "the world" but whatever it is that we choose to do with our lives there is still only one God and Saviour.

Jesus in his dying words creates "the not of this world" Church of Love, comprised of Creator, Saviour and Love i.e. Jesus, Mary our adopting sinless mother, and John, the Beloved Disciple, the New Holy Family which welcomes all who know that there is nothing that this world can offer that is able to compete with the peaceful security that we can now choose to be ours even as we aspire to live out sinless lives in this world  ever mindful that the "Ever-Greater" knows, loves and supports us on our way as much as, for our part, we know, love and serve Him.

"Woman behold your son, Son behold your mother"