News Item: : Candlemas Day
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Monday 02 February 2015 - 20:56:52

From as early as the 4th Century the Church has celebrated on this day one of the most ancient feasts of Our Lady, to commemorate her ritual Purification and the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple. The feast has traditionally been celebrated with the blessing and procession of candles, to signify that Christ has come as the true light of the world.

''Hear Thy people, O Lord, we beseech Thee, and grant us to obtain those things interiorly by the light of Thy grace, which Thou grantest us outwardly to venerate by this annual devotion. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen'' (Collect, Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Traditional Missal).

We pray that all our readers will be so blessed as to receive the true light of the world - Jesus Christ. 

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