"Simeon sings because he is moved by a vision, long awaited, long in coming. Moved because of the freedom which is at the heart of the vision, moved that is his eyes which are seeing the vision — my hope is that our eyes will see some of that vision today — and moved because he is seeing that God’s salvation is for all people, and that this vision can no longer be hidden for it is ‘before the face of all people.'"
