Showing posts with label Candlemas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Candlemas. Show all posts

Thursday, 10 August 2023

THE FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS

 

Candlemas Day,

The festival of lights

40 days after Epiphany

Is celebrated to mark

The Presentation of Christ

In The Temple,

Wednesday, 1 February 2023

ON CANDLEMAS DAY

 

The winter will not come again

If Candlemas day has cloud or rain

But if the day is bathed in sun

Then the spring hasn’t yet begun

CANDLEMAS DAY

 

If Candlemas is sunny and bright

We will again feel Winters bite.

If Candlemas brings cloudy skies

Spring will be an early surprise

AIDAN OF LINDISFARNE

  Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne Was an Irish missionary monk Who was credited in the 6th Century Of converting the Anglo-Saxons To Chri...