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 | | According to present practice, the celebration has a rank of feast and is called the Presentation of the Lord. |
 | | The feast was certainly not introduced by Pope Gelasius to suppress the excesses of the Lupercalia (Migne, Missale Gothicum, 691), and it spread slowly in the West; it is not found in the "Lectionary" of Silos (650) nor in the "Calendar" (731-741) of Sainte-Genevieve of Paris. |
 | | In the East it was celebrated as a feast of the Lord; in the West as a feast of Mary; although the Invitatorium (Gaude et lætare, Jerusalem, occurrens Deo tuo), the antiphons and responsories remind us of its original conception as a feast of the Lord. |
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