The Meeting of the Lord in the Temple

Tomorrow we celebrate a (rather unusual) double commemoration: the Feast of the Meeting of the Lord in the Temple and the Sunday of the Prodigal Son.

Links for the Feast of the Meeting (or Presentation) of the Lord:

• Epistle reading; Gospel reading.
  
• Liturgical service (translated by Archimandrite Ephrem).
• St Cyril of Alexandria, commentary on Luke 2: 21-24; 2: 25-35; and 2: 40-52.
  
• Entry from The Prologue from Ochrid.
• Archbishop Dmitri of Dallas and the South, The Meeting of Our Lord.
• Fr Victor Potapov, sermon.
  

Links for the Sunday of the Prodigal Son:

• Epistle reading; Gospel reading.
  
• Liturgical service (translated by Archimandrite Ephrem).
• Synaxarion.
• St Cyril of Alexandria, commentary on the Gospel reading.
  
• St John of Shanghai and San Francisco, A Word to the Youth.
  
• Archbishop Andrei (Rymarenko) of Rockland, sermon.
  
• Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh, sermons from 1967, 1984, 1990, and 1991.
• Fr Sergei Sveshnikov, sermon.
  
• Fr Andrew Phillips, sermon.
• Fr Dimitri Tsakas, sermon.
• Deacon Matthew Steenberg, reflections from 2001 and 2009.
• Entry from the Nastol'naia Kniga.
  
• My own reflection from last year.