Today is Candlemas, festival of light, 'forðy on ðissum dæge wæs þæt soðe Leoht, Crist, geboren to þam temple' ('because on this day was the true Light, Christ, carried to the temple'). An Anglo-Saxon sermon for this ancient and beautiful feast: https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2012/01/lfric-on-candlemas-twofold-burgeoning.html

Candlemas is a feast which has at its heart a meeting between birth and death, childhood and old age, winter and spring. https://unherd.com/2021/02/we-need-candlemas-more-than-ever/

'Farewell, Christmas fair and free!
Farewell, New Year's Day with thee!
Farewell, the holy Epiphany!
And to Mary now sing we:
Revertere, revertere,
The queen of bliss and of beauty.'

A 15th-century Candlemas carol: https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2014/01/a-candlemas-carol-queen-of-bliss-and-of.html

'Now let me dye, Lorde, and hence pace,
For I, thi servaunt in this place,
Have seen my Savyour dere.'

A medieval play of the Presentation in the Temple, in which poverty, patience and frail old age encounter a light hidden from the eyes of the powerful https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2017/02/all-hail-lantern-of-light.html