: Meeting of the Lord / St. Simeon’s Canticle (Vespers 4)

Subtitles: ENGLISH, SPANISH, SERBIAN, GREEK, GERMAN, SLOVAK, ROMANIAN, RUSSIAN and BULGARIAN A weekly, brief reflection on the church calendar, hosted by Dr. Sr. Vassa Larin of the University of Vienna, Austria. This episode is on St. Simeon’s Canticle So, zillions, let‘s get right to the point and look at the text of the Canticle of St. Simeon: “Now You dismiss Your servant, O Lord, according to Your word in peace;” (Here Simeon says that God is ”dismissing” him, that is, letting him depart from t