Tradition has it that Our Lady was presented in the temple at a very early age. We used to have the "Little Mary" ceremony at school on November 21 when one of the little girls would be chosen to go to the statue of Our Lady and present her with flowers.
The feast is an important one for the Society of the Sacred Heart as it is the day we celebrate our founding in 1800. I guess we are now clebrating our 222 birthday! As young nuns, we always had a triduum of prayer the three days before the feast and renewed our vows on the feast. Since we were very busy in the school, we met at night in the Superior's room to prepare the feast and sometimes we even had a talk in the Chapel by a priest for the entire community. We were replaced with the children during the talks. It made the feast stand out for me and I should mention it to our chef here to see if he is aware of it being a special birthday for us. He has learned how to make wonderful ice-cream cakes!
It is always nice to celebrate a feast of Our Lady. I would like to ask your prayers for my brother, John, whose wife died last December after a long struggle with luekemia. He is depressed and needs prayer.
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