“Light to illuminate all nations” Lk. 2:22-35

Luke’s Gospel offers us the text of the Presentation of the Child Jesus in the temple; This is the public presentation. But, again, the story is disconcerting, we see the parents who take the Child to the Temple, but He is not received by the high priests, nor the religious leaders. The birth scene is repeated, He receives no great welcome or hospitality; the shepherds have to go looking for him in a secluded place and they found him lying in a manger, with no other witnesses than his parents, Mary and Joseph.

Those who welcome Jesus and recognize him as God’s Envoy are two kind-hearted elderly persons who have lived their long lives waiting for God’s salvation. They are Simeon and Anna. They represent so many people of simple faith who, in all peoples of all times, live with their trust in God.

Simple people are those who have nothing but their faith in God. They expect from Him only the “consolation” that His people need, the “liberation” that they have been seeking generation after generation, the “light” that illuminates the darkness in which the peoples of the earth live. Now they feel their hopes fulfilled in Jesus.

Am I a sower of hope?