Colligite Fragmenta: Candlemas or the Feast of the Purification — By: OnePeterFive

The Feast we celebrate this Sunday is called the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. On this day we definitively close out the Advent/Christmas cycle. It is forty days since Christmas. According to Mosaic Law, women who had given birth were required to offer a sacrifice for ritual purification. Of course, Our Lady was not strictly bound by this law laid down in Leviticus…

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