Following on from my post yesterday for Candlemas I see that Christopher Howse wrote about the feast on its eve in his regular Saturday colu...

Today is the Feast of Candlemas, the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple and the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is also the ...

Today is Candlemas, the Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple and of the Purification of the Virgin Mary. Candlemas  ...

Here, thanks to the post by the Rev. Gordon Plumb on the Medieval Religion discussion group, are some medieval images of Candlemas in sta...

I was helping as a porter at the Oratory this lunchtime and so unable to attend the EF Low Mass at lunchtime, but earlier this evening did a...

Today is Candlermas, the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple and of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Th...

With Candlemas falling at the weekend I, and indeed all the faithful,  had more opportunity than usual to join in celebrations of this lov...

Today is Candlemas, the feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple and the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. An illu...

Today is Candlemas, the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple and of  the Purification of Our Lady. The Presentat...

Before we move into Septuagesima here is one final post for this year relating to Candlemas. The New Liturgical Movement has reposted an ar...

I like this poem by Newman which we sing at the Oxford Oratory as a hymn for Candlemas because of the way it links the images of candles at ...

Thinking about Candlemas it occurs to me that we can understand this feast as being the third disclosure of Our Lord to the world. If Chris...

Writing of today's feast St Anselm (c.1033-1109) says "The wax of the candles signifies the virginal flesh of the Divine Infant, t...

Today is Candlemas, the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple, and of the Purification of Our Lady. It is a feast of which I a...

I wrote last week about serving the Candlemas liturgy at SS Gregory and Augustine here in Oxford. Last night I was shown the Flickr photogra...

There is an interesting post on the New Liturgical Movement about the evolution of the Candlemas liturgy which you can read here . Last nig...

This is the second reading from the Office of Readings for today, and is, I think,  a wonderful exploration of the themes of Candlemas. It ...

The Presentation in the Temple Stefan Lochner 1447 Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt Today is Candlemas, the Feast of the Presentation o...