candlemas

As the Church requires on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, all the candles to be used in the church in the following 12 months were blest at the beginning of Mass.

A small group of 30 or 40 parishioners foregatherd in the side-chapel were the candles received their blessing and then, candles in hand, processed into the church for the liturgy of the word. The homily contained an exhortation not just to carry the lighted candles but actually to become lights for the world. How? By living out the will of God in our daily lives as moddeled by Jesus in the Gospels.

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