Candlemas for Catholics

 

Christmas goes 40 days til Candlemas. It is tradition At Candlemas mass, for the faithful to bring their basket filled with their entire year’s supply of prayer candles for their home/family, to be blessed by the priest. It is tradition that the candles are usually 100% beeswax.

The women of the family take great care & joy in making or purchasing the prayer candles as well as embroidering intricate linen basket liners for their baskets.

Some leftover bees wax cakes from a honey harvest. Ready to be melted down to candles.

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We roll some of our candles ourselves using wax from our bee hive frames.

In the tradition of the Candlemas basket as well as the Easter basket & other liturgical baskets to be blessed by the priest, is one where the women of the family take great care & joy in making embroidered, intricate linen basket liners for their baskets, as well as linen cloths to cover the candles with in the basket. These candles will be our prayers for the next year. It is a beautiful tradition to cover those prayers with a prayerful linen veil. All treasures of the church are veiled.

Candlemas mass is usually an evening, absolutely beautiful candlelit mass.

It is such an amazing way to close the Christmas Season.

May all beautiful traditions be restored & remembered so as to enrich the faithful with perseverance on this pilgrim journey.

Click above photo for a link on Candlemas mass info.

it's really important to note the woman holding the beeswax candle. that is the custom to meet the priest outside or at the door with the blessed beeswax candle that was blessed in the Candlemas basket on Candlemas.

Praised be the Most Holy Name of Jesus Christ!
Blessed be the Holy Names of Mary & Joseph!
Blessed be God in His Angels & Saints!

Yours in Christ,

lisa

CONFRATERNITY OF CHRISTIAN MOTHERS

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THE MARIAN AUSPICE SYMBOL MEANS: UNDER THE PROTECTION OF MARY

THE DIVINE PRAISES:

BLESSED BE GOD.

BLESSED BE HIS HOLY NAME.

BLESSED BE JESUS CHRIST, TRUE GOD & TRUE MAN.

BLESSED BE THE NAME OF JESUS.

BLESSED BE HIS MOST SACRED HEART.

BLESSED BE HIS MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD.

BLESSED BE JESUS IN THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT OF THE ALTAR.

BLESSED BE THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE PARACLETE.

BLESSED BE THE GREAT MOTHER OF GOD, MARY MOST HOLY.

BLESSED BE HER HOLY & IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.

BLESSED BE HER GLORIOUS ASSUMPTION.

BLESSED BE THE NAME OF MARY, VIRGIN & MOTHER.

BLESSED BE ST. JOSEPH, HER MOST CHASTE SPOUSE.

BLESSED BE GOD IN HIS ANGELS & IN HIS SAINTS.

HOLY FACE DEVOTION

Promises to those devoted to the Most Holy Face of Jesus Christ (HOLY FACE DEVOTION)

1. All those who honor My Face in a spirit of reparation will by so doing perform the office of the pious Veronica. According to the care they take in making reparation to My Face, disfigured by blasphemers, so will I take care of their souls which have been disfigured by sin. My Face is the seal of the Divinity, which has the virtue of reproducing in souls the image of God.

2. Those who by words, prayers or writing defend My cause in this Work of Reparation I will defend before My Father, and will give them My Kingdom.

3. By offering My Face to My Eternal Father, nothing will be refused, and the conversion of many sinners will be obtained.

4. By My Holy Face, they will work wonders, appease the anger of God, and draw down mercy on sinners.

5. As in a kingdom they can procure all that is desired with a coin stamped with the King's effigy, so in the Kingdom of Heaven they will obtain all they desire with the precious coin of My Holy Face.

6.Those who on earth contemplate the wounds of My Face shall in Heaven behold it radiant with glory.

7.They will receive in their souls a bright and constant irradiation of My Divinity, that by their likeness to My Face they shall shine with particular splendor in Heaven.

8. I will defend them, I will preserve them and I assure them of Final Perseverance.

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O Jesus whose adorable Face ravishes my heart, I implore you to fix deep within me your Divine Image, and to set me on fire with your Divine Love so that I may be come worthy to come to the contemplation of Thy Most Glorious Face in heaven. Amen
Prayer of St. Terese of Lisieux (1873-1897) Doctor of the Church, Feast Day, October 1

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On March 16th, 1844, our Lord said to Sr. Marie de St. Pierre, " You cannot comprehend the malice and abomination of this sin of blasphemy. If My Justice were not restrained by My Mercy, indeed, it would instantly crush the guilty. In fact, all creatures, even those that are inanimate, (including the elements of nature), would avenge this outrage against their Creator's majesty, but I have an eternity in which to punish the guilty . . .

Oh, if you only knew what great merit you acquire by saying even once, 'Admirable is the Name of God.'

For your badge I give you the cross and thorns that lay buried within My Heart. Do not turn away from this cross nor from these thorns, because My daughter, you are being called to a high perfection. Think only of Me, and I in return, I will think of you. 'Attend' to My affairs, and I promise you that I will take care of yours . .."

Picture of Sr. Marie de St. Pierre

Our Lord gave to this Carmelite the Work of Reparation, the Holy Face Devotion(so important during this day and time in which we live.) Blessed be the Name of God!!

A visit to the Blessed Sacrament on a Tuesday in a spirit of reparation to the Holy Face bestows particular graces.

Jesus appeared to Blessed Mother Maria Pierina de Micheli covered with blood and very sadly said to her:

"Do you see how I suffer? Yet, very few understand me. Those who say they love me are very ungrateful! I have given my heart as the sensible object of my great love to men and I give My Face as the sensible object of my sorrow for all the sins of men. I wish that it be venerated by a special feast on Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday. I wish that the feast be preceded by a novena in which the faithful make reparation with me, joining together and sharing in my sorrow."
In 1939 Jesus said again:

"I wish that My Holy Face be honored in a particular manner on Tuesdays".

Our Lady said to Blessed Maria Pierina de Micheli

"A visit to the Blessed Sacrament every Tuesday in reparation for the outrages that the Holy Face of my Son Jesus received during His Passion and is still receiving in the Holy Eucharist every day,
- will be strengthened in the Faith, and will be made ready to defend it,
- will overcome all difficulties, internal and external
- and they will have a peaceful death under the loving gaze of my Divine Son" 

Sr. Mary of St. Peter writes: “In the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar, His adorable Face is more dazzling than the sun. He then once more promised me to imprint His Divine Likeness upon the souls of those who honour the features of His Face” (Autobiography p187)

St. Gaetana Catanoso (canonised by Pope Benedict XVI) said: "If we wish to adore the real Face of Jesus..., we can find it in the divine Eucharist, where with the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, the Face of Our Lord is hidden under the white veil of the Host".

Pope Benedict XVI stated we must allow ourselves be transformed by “the radiance of His Face.”
The Holy Father referred to that “face concealed in the Eucharistic signs.”

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Blessed be the Most Holy Names of Jesus, Mary, & Joseph!

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OUR LADY OF SORROWS, OUR LADY OF KIBEHO, MATER DOLOROSA

Our Lady of Sorrows Devotion

(Seven Dolors of Mary) (Mater Dolorosa)

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PROMISES OF OUR LADY OF SORROWS

These are the seven promises Our Lady made, through St. Bridget of Sweden, to those who are devoted to meditating on her Seven Sorrows:

1. "I will grant peace to their families."

2. "They will be enlightened about the Divine Mysteries."

3. "I will console them in their pains and I will accompany them in their work.”

4. "I will give them as much as they ask for as long as it does not oppose the adorable will of my Divine Son or the sanctification of their souls."

5. "I will defend them in their spiritual battles with the infernal enemy and I will protect them at every instant of their lives."

6. "I will visibly help them at the moment of their death. They will see the face of their Mother.”

7. "I have obtained this grace from my divine Son, that those who propagate this devotion to my tears and dolors, will be taken directly from this earthly life to eternal happiness since all their sins will be forgiven and my Son and I will be their eternal consolation and joy."

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THE SEVEN SORROWS OF MARY

1.The prophecy of Simeon. (Luke 2:34–35)

2.The flight into Egypt. (Matthew 2:13-23)

3.The loss of the Child Jesus in the Temple of Jerusalem. (Luke 2:43–45)

4.Mary's meeting Jesus on the Via Dolorosa. (not in the New Testament)

5.The Crucifixion of Jesus on Mount Calvary. (Matthew 27:34–50, Mark 15:23–37, Luke 23:33–46, John 19:18–30)

6.The Piercing of the Side of Jesus with a spear, and his descent from the Cross. (John 19:34)

7.The burial of Jesus by Joseph of Arimathea. (Matthew 27:57–61, Mark 15:43–47, Luke 23:50–53, John 19:40–42

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Blessed be the Holy Names of Jesus, Mary, & Joseph!