St Peters Orthodox Church

Today the Blessed Virgin Mary is presented to the Temple in Jerusalem. Her parents, Saints Joachim & Anna, offer this precious life God provided for them that removed their shame back to the God who showed mercy on them. And the Blessed Virgin would grow up in the Temple in prayer and the service of others. At the message from God through the Archangel Gabriel, this most blessed woman continued in a life of self-offering, responding to God, "Be it unto me as You will." We see the results of the self-offering life we see in the Blessed Virgin & her parents. When we offer ourselves back to God in loving response for what we have received from Him, salvation comes to us and through us for the life of the world.