We celebrate a joyful mystery today, the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, when Mary and Joseph brought their infant ...

According to the Church's liturgical calendar, the feast held on Feb. 2 each year is in honor of the Presentation of the Lord.

Rooted in early Christian tradition, Candlemas marks the presentation of Jesus and purification of the Virgin Mary at Herod's Temple in Jerusalem.

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The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is one of the holidays that seems to get lost in all of the Thanksgiving and Christmas preparations every year. But, despite it not being as flashy of other ...

A number of the medieval Flowers of Our Lady have been associated with the feasts or seasons of the liturgical year for which they are in bloom, and for which their characteristic forms or colors have ...

One of my liturgical losses is that of the period between the Epiphany and the Presentation, Candlemas! The Anglicans keep ...

On Marian feast days, we wear blue. I can’t stop myself from thinking this little phrase whenever I dress for one of the many feasts in the Catholic Church that are attributed to Mary. Blue is the ...

The gospel reading for Epiphany 4 is John 2.1–11, the water into wine at the wedding in Cana (also the reading for Epiphany 3 ...