Today, February 2, the Church celebrates the feast of the Presentation of the Lord Jesus in the Temple, an event remembered in the fourth joyful mystery of the Rosary. Here is a brief review of the story: At the end of the fourth century, a woman named Etheria made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Her journal, discovered in 1887, gives an unprecedented glimpse of liturgical life there. Among the celebrations she describes is the procession in honor of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple. Under…
