Lives of Saints - February

”The lives of Saints celebrated in February are adorned from the beginning with oneof the twelve royal feasts of great religious and spiritual significance. The Presentation of Our Lord and Savior in the Temple on the 2^nd of February, when the old and just Simeon, 40 days after our Savior's Nativity, welcomes, in his arms, the Son of God, Who took flash in Virgin Mary's body, for the salvation of the world. This feast offers us all the highest path to encounter and be  mystically united with Christ through prayer, faith, Eucharistic sacrifice and the Holy Communion, without which no one can be saved.”

(fragment from Introduction, by Archimandrite Ioanichie Bălan)