THE PURIFICATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN.
The festival •of the Purification, which is common to the Latin and Greek Churches, is rendered peculiar by the blessing of wax tapers which are carried burning by those who form*the procession Avhich takes place afterwards. The symbolic meaning attributed to this ceremony is that the faithful should, with the holy Simeon, recognise in the Infant Jesus the salvation which the Lord had prepared before the face of the people—"A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of the people of Israel" (Luke ii. 31-32), and be admonished by the burning tapers which they are carrying in their hands, that their faith must be fed and augmented by the exercise of.good works, through which they are to become a light to shine before men. (Matt. v. 14-16.)
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 4, 28 January 1925, Page 61
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134THE PURIFICATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN. New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 4, 28 January 1925, Page 61
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