{"id":438,"date":"2017-01-09T08:17:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T08:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=438"},"modified":"2019-03-18T08:25:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T08:25:02","slug":"christmastide-and-candlemas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"Christmastide and Candlemas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the older tradition (which is still kept in the liturgical calendar of the Extraordinary Form of the Mass), Christmas lasts until Candlemas, or the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Presentation of the Lord, which we celebrate on 2nd February.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-439\" src=\"http:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Candlemas-2-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Candlemas-2-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Candlemas-2.jpg 637w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This marked the end of a long 40-day \u201cChristmastide\u201d that corresponded to the 40 days of Lent. On 2nd February, the Church celebrates the day that Mary entered the Temple with the Child Jesus, when her days of purification after giving birth were fulfilled (according to the Mosaic law), and when Simeon made his well-known prophecy about Mary and the Child.<\/p>\n<p>This feast is\u00a0historically called \u201cCandle-mas\u201d because of Simeon\u2019s prophecy of Jesus being &#8220;a light for the Gentiles.&#8221; Today, it\u00a0is better known as the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, we will keep the Crib up in St Thomas&#8217;\u00a0until 2nd February, which is also the tradition at the Vatican. However, we will bring down the Christmas tree and decorations on the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, which this year we celebrate on 9th January.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-427\" src=\"http:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Crib-2016-2-300x209.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Crib-2016-2-300x209.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Crib-2016-2-768x536.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Crib-2016-2-1024x714.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the older tradition (which is still kept in the liturgical calendar of the Extraordinary Form of the Mass), Christmas lasts until Candlemas, or the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Presentation of the Lord, which we celebrate on 2nd February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-ryan-black","has-more-link","post-438","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-parish-news","category-the-catholic-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p85OtW-74","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Candlemas.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}