Candlemas
Tue, Feb 02
|St. Joseph Church
All are welcome to attend the High Mass and bring their own candles to be blessed as a part of the Liturgy. The Mass will be celebrated Tuesday, February 2 at 6PM.


Time & Location
Feb 02, 2021, 6:00 PM
St. Joseph Church
About The Event
Candlemas Day is another name for the feast of the Presentation of the Lord. Forty days after His birth, Mary and Joseph brought Jesus to the temple for the rites of purification and dedication as prescribed by the Torah. According to the Book of Leviticus (12:1-4), when a woman bore a male child, she was considered “unclean” for seven days. On the eighth day, the boy was circumcised. The mother continued to stay at home for 33 days for her blood to be purified. After the 40 days, the mother and the father came to the temple for the rite of purification, which included the offering of a sacrifice — a lamb for a holocaust (burnt offering) and a pigeon or turtledove for a sin offering, or for a poor couple who could not afford a lamb, two pigeons or two turtledoves. Note Joseph and Mary made the offering of…