We can add to this, the famous quote from the “Christophers,” that Christian inspirational group whose motto was: “It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.”
Saint Luke tells us that while Simeon held the Christ Child, Simeon had “seen” God’s promised salvation. And Anna, despite her advanced age, seeing the Christ Child, found new vigor, and went about spreading the Good News of His arrival, becoming something of a proto-Evangelist.