Presentation of Jesus at the Temple Lk 2,22-40

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A Jewish couple like many others brings their child to the Temple for the rituals prescribed by the Mosaic religion. The priests perform the gesture as a routine. An elderly couple praying at the Temple instead recognize in that child the awaited Messiah. This week's Gospel Art tells, thanks to the works of Ambrogio Lorenzetti and Rembrandt, the joy, the confusion, even the pain experienced in that moment