Join us on February 2nd, for the official end of Christmas, called Candlemas, or The Presentation of Our Lord, which this year falls on a Sunday!  At our 10:30am service, candles will be blessed for you to take home and burn throughout the year.

“It is customary on Candlemas to bless candles; the candles to be carried in the procession, the candles that will be used throughout the liturgical year, and candles that are given to the congregation to take home. The candlelight is an outward and visible sign of Christ who illumines our heart and inner being.

St. Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022) offers a beautiful and insightful reflection on lighting candles:

The candles which you light reveal to you the intelligible light. Just as the church, that house of great beauty, is full of light from many candles, so the house of your soul, which is more precious than that church, should be illumined and full of light in a noetic sense – that is to say, that within you all the spiritual virtues should burn with divine fire… The multitude of burning lamps signify the illumined thoughts which should shine within you like lamps, so that there should be no dark thought in the house of your soul, but that all should be aflame and shining with the light of the Holy spirit.”1

1 Source: https://interruptingthesilence.com/2015/01/29/blessing-candles-on-the-feast-of-the-presentation-candlemas/