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The collect for today, The Presentation of Christ in the Temple, commonly called The Purification of Saint Mary the Virgin, from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer:
Almighty and everliving God, we humbly beseech thy Majesty, that, as thy only-begotten Son was this day presented in the temple in substance of our flesh, so we may be presented unto thee with pure and clean hearts, by the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
For the Epistle: Malachi 3:1-5
The Gospel: St Luke 2:22-40
Painting: Rembrandt, The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, 1631. Mauritshuis, The Hague.
