On the feast of The Meeting of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the Temple, the Very Rev. Dr Chad Hatfield leads the hearer through the journey the Mother of God has taken thus far in the Gospel narrative in becoming the God-bearer. We are encouraged to join her in pondering the events of the Gospels in our hearts. As St Maximus the Confessor says, we look towards the Cross, longing for it as “the sign of our salvation and the seal of our Lord”.