Candlemass

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Does your church have particular popular customs associated with Candlemass - I am not referring to the official liturgy. I am thinking for example of whether people bring candles themselves to be blessed or other customs, maybe at home.

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Does your church have particular popular customs associated with Candlemass - I am not referring to the official liturgy. I am thinking for example of whether people bring candles themselves to be blessed or other customs, maybe at home.

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People bring candles to be blessed.

(If you also got the little Christ child in your 3 King´s Cake, then you’re expected to have tamales for Candlemass!).
 
Father usually has a small gathering in the back of the church before Mass and blesses our candles. The attendance has been rather low in the past few years; I hope we do it this year.
 
It is always a really popular service at our parish where the weekend mass attendance tops 1000 (it is usually around 800)

Some people bring their own candles but we always have a complete stock of the liturgical candles which are blessed as part of the ceremony at the start of the service. Everyone who comes to the church is also given a candle that is lit and blessed.

We then process into church singing with gusto the great Candelmas hymn “Hail to the Lord who comes”

youtube.com/watch?v=7mnLnIftB0g

At high mass the choir will sing “When to the Temple Mary went” by Eccard, youtube.com/watch?v=qC-RUCfsjFc

and a setting of the Nunc Dimitis at the end of the service.
 
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