Family Theater: The Presentation

Transcribe. Family Theater presents Anne Blythe, Jeff Chandler, and William Lundigan. Family Theater's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives. If we are to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families, and peace for the world.

Family Theater urges you to pray, pray together as a family. As part of its Special Holiday Program, the Mutual Network, in cooperation with Family Theatre and the Catholic Daughters of America, bring you a half-hour dramatization of the presentation of the Christ Child in the Temple, according to the Law of Moses, forty days after his birth,

starring Anne Blythe as Mary, and Jeff Chandler as the narrator. William Lundigan will be your host. Do you complain, my child, that there is little to meditate upon commemorating the day that Joseph and I brought Jesus for the first time to the temple.

Yes, child. I know you realize it was an event worthy of remembrance, and I have seen many of you devoutly celebrating this feast, the feast of the purification. Yet compared to his birth, for instance, this seems, does it not?

Less colorful or more remote? Or as your dramatist would say, a kind of anticlimax following the mighty nativity. It did not seem so to us. We shall have fine weather for our journey, Mary. Much different from our last.

Oh, my little one, my firstborn shall be presented to the Lord. The first begotten of God to be presented in his own temple. Oh, yes, beloved. Oh, Joseph, this shall be a marvel to me as long as I am on earth.

He cries and hungers like any other child in it. Behind this hopelessness is omnipotence. Behind those baby eyes all knowledge of heaven and earth. Tomorrow thou, Lambkin of God, thou holy one, we shall go into the house of the Lord.