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Definition of Candlemas in English: Candlemasnoun ˈkand(ə)lməsˈkand(ə)lmasˈkændlməs A Christian festival held on 2 February to commemorate the purification of the Virgin Mary (after childbirth, according to Jewish law) and the presentation of Christ in the Temple. Candles were traditionally blessed at this festival. Example sentencesExamples - It was said that if the weather was fair on the mid-winter feast day of Candlemas then winter would return in force.
- During Candlemas ceremonies, church-goers bring candles to church, where the flame is blessed and represents good will and luck in the coming year.
- She has been gone for four months, since Candlemas.
- Today modern neopagans either celebrate it on the 1st or 2nd, the 2nd being more popular in America, perhaps because of a confusion with Candlemas.
- Saturday, February 1, is the feast of St. Brigid; Sunday, 2nd, is the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord also known as Candlemas - the traditional day to bless candles donated by people for church use throughout the year.
- The Candlemas collection will take place on Saturday and Sunday, February 2 and 3, in St Manman's Church.
- The mother, usually veiled, carried the candle blessed at Candlemas and waited penitently for the priest at the vestibule of the church with her husband and female companions.
- What I never knew until now is that February 3, the day after Candlemas, is the Feast of St Blaise, the patron saint of wool combers.
- This day, which as a child, I called Candlemas, was a religious holiday dedicated to a well-connected infant.
- The person finding the small china doll or bean becomes King or Queen for the meal, but that person is also obligated to host a party or supper on Candlemas, February 2.
- Inclusion of the candle thus marks Mary's Christianization of the Jewish purification ritual, and fifteenth century women, imitating her example, offered a candle blessed at Candlemas during their churchings.
- They resumed on Candlemas, and concluded with a masque presented before the Queen at Whitehall at Shrovetide.
- On the Roman Catholic feast day called Candlemas, all the ceremonial candles are blessed.
- The Middle Temple Hall, for example, saw in 2004 a performance of Twelfth Night on February 2nd, as it did on Candlemas 1602.
- One which scarcely survived into modern times was evidently important enough in the Middle Ages to have earned the suffix mas, along with Michaelmas, Hallowmas, Christmas and Candlemas.
- At a meeting in September the Privy Council set the date: February 7th, a Thursday, during the week following the important festival of Candlemas, when Charles I himself had been crowned.
- The theme of misrule in Twelfth Night was apt for the Candlemas performance.
- These days, the equivalent dates in Scotland are Martinmas, Candlemas, Whitsunday and Lammas.
- On Candlemas pupils also paid a gratuity or ‘bleeze’ to their schoolmaster.
- Mr Allen's sermon was on the feast of Candlemas, which fell on Sunday.
Origin Old English Candelmæsse (see candle, Mass). Definition of Candlemas in US English: Candlemasnounˈkandlməsˈkændlməs A Christian festival held on February 2 to commemorate the purification of the Virgin Mary (after childbirth, according to Jewish law) and the presentation of Christ in the Temple. Candles were traditionally blessed at this festival. Example sentencesExamples - The mother, usually veiled, carried the candle blessed at Candlemas and waited penitently for the priest at the vestibule of the church with her husband and female companions.
- The theme of misrule in Twelfth Night was apt for the Candlemas performance.
- They resumed on Candlemas, and concluded with a masque presented before the Queen at Whitehall at Shrovetide.
- On the Roman Catholic feast day called Candlemas, all the ceremonial candles are blessed.
- At a meeting in September the Privy Council set the date: February 7th, a Thursday, during the week following the important festival of Candlemas, when Charles I himself had been crowned.
- The Middle Temple Hall, for example, saw in 2004 a performance of Twelfth Night on February 2nd, as it did on Candlemas 1602.
- She has been gone for four months, since Candlemas.
- What I never knew until now is that February 3, the day after Candlemas, is the Feast of St Blaise, the patron saint of wool combers.
- These days, the equivalent dates in Scotland are Martinmas, Candlemas, Whitsunday and Lammas.
- During Candlemas ceremonies, church-goers bring candles to church, where the flame is blessed and represents good will and luck in the coming year.
- This day, which as a child, I called Candlemas, was a religious holiday dedicated to a well-connected infant.
- On Candlemas pupils also paid a gratuity or ‘bleeze’ to their schoolmaster.
- Saturday, February 1, is the feast of St. Brigid; Sunday, 2nd, is the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord also known as Candlemas - the traditional day to bless candles donated by people for church use throughout the year.
- Mr Allen's sermon was on the feast of Candlemas, which fell on Sunday.
- One which scarcely survived into modern times was evidently important enough in the Middle Ages to have earned the suffix mas, along with Michaelmas, Hallowmas, Christmas and Candlemas.
- The Candlemas collection will take place on Saturday and Sunday, February 2 and 3, in St Manman's Church.
- Inclusion of the candle thus marks Mary's Christianization of the Jewish purification ritual, and fifteenth century women, imitating her example, offered a candle blessed at Candlemas during their churchings.
- It was said that if the weather was fair on the mid-winter feast day of Candlemas then winter would return in force.
- Today modern neopagans either celebrate it on the 1st or 2nd, the 2nd being more popular in America, perhaps because of a confusion with Candlemas.
- The person finding the small china doll or bean becomes King or Queen for the meal, but that person is also obligated to host a party or supper on Candlemas, February 2.
Origin Old English Candelmæsse (see candle, Mass). |