Friday 2 February 2024

Candlemas 2024

The presentation in the Temple. 
J-J Tissot. Brooklyn Museum.
Today, we commemorate the feasts of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple.


On the occasion of these two feasts, I am renewing the installation first carried out at Candlemas in 2021 which enthroned the Holy Infant Jesus in cubiculo meo. This was supplemented at Candlemas 2022 by including prayers from Papa Stronsay to the Holy Chaplet and renewed at Candlemas 2023

The expanded, illustrated version of the Devotion can be viewed as a PDF by clicking on the link below:

(The prayers now include the Sub tuum Præsidium - said to the the oldest known prayer to the Most Holy Mother of God.)


Laudetur Jesus Christus et Maria Immaculata!


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The Vladimirskaya Icon. >12th century.
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 tuum præsidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genitrix. Nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta. Amen.

 

 


Totus tuus ego sum
Et omnia mea tua sunt;
Tecum semper tutus sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam.

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