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Today the Church celebrates the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the temple.

When we do what Jesus did—bring glad tidings to  the poor, liberty to captives, healing to the sick, and freedom to the oppressed—we serve the Kingdom of God.

We respond as best we can, fully confident that God can transform our efforts, bringing the Kingdom of God to fulfillment among us.

May we be like Mary, open and cooperative in God’s plan for salvation.

Advent season is a season of joy because our salvation is already at hand.

As John’s message prepared the way for Jesus, we too are called to prepare ourselves for Jesus’ coming.

Like the first Christians, we may encounter events and circumstances that could lead us to despair. Through prayer, however, we find strength and consolation in Jesus’ words and in his continuing presence with us to endure all things and to witness to the action of God in our world.

The King that we are celebrating today, came to establish the kingdom of God, and his authority and power was the power of love, mercy and compassion, and he paid the ransom for his subjects through the sacrifice of his own life.

In today’s Gospel, Jesus continues this teaching by offering his disciples signs to look for that will indicate that the coming of the Son of Man is near.