Simeon's Example

Nunc dimittis, Domine, servum tuum in pace, quia viderunt oculi mei salutare tuum. Nos ergo dilectissimi fratres, hujus sanctissimi senis Simenois exemplum sequentes, Dominum Christum in mundum venisse credamus, ulnis sincerissimae dilectionis adventus ejus memoriam fideliter amplectentes, ei utpote membra capiti conjungamur, ita ut non ab eo separemus, usque dum eum in templo gloriae suae videre mereamur. Vitam quoque istam fallecem et caducam fugientes, ad illam quae vera et permanens est, toto mentis desiderio tendamus, auxiliante Domino nostro Jesus Christo, qui est, ut ipse dicit, via, veritas et vita: via, videlicet recte gradientium; veritas, veritatem amantium; vita, bene viventium. Odilo Cluniacensis Abbas, Sermo III, De Purificatione Sanctae Dei Genitricis Mariae Source: Migne PL 142.1001b-c

Now dimiss your servant in peace, O Lord, for my eyes have seen your salvation.1 Let us then, dearest brothers, following the example of this most holy old man Simeon, believe that the Lord Christ has come into the world, in our arms faithfully embracing the memory of his coming with dearest love, as members joined to Him the head, that we be not separated from Him, until we merit to see Him in the temple of His glory. Fleeing this deceitful and fallen life, let us hold to what is true and permanent with all the desire of our heart, with the help of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is, as He Himself says, The Way, The Truth and The Life. 2 The way certainly of those who walk correctly; the truth of the lovers of truth, the life of those who live well. Saint Odo of Cluny, from Sermon 3, On The Purification of Mary, The Holy Mother Of God 1 Lk 2.29-30 2 Jn 14.6