Mary’s Unneeded Temple Purification and the Gift of Obedience
Tomas Kauer 
After the forty days required for purification came to an end, Mary went to the temple to present her Son. Biblically speaking, the number forty often represents a time of preparation (the rains of the Great Flood fell for forty days; the Israelites wandered the desert for forty years; Jesus fasted in the desert for ... Read more
