Have your candles blessed on the Feast of the Purification (Feb. 2nd)
While our Priests are happy to bless candles all year, there is a special blessing for candles on the Feast of the Purification (February 2nd) in the context of the Liturgy. We are more than happy to have the candles you order blessed at that Mass, provided we have the candles in stock before that date. If you wish to have your candles blessed at the Purification Mass please:
- Include a note that you would like your candles blessed in the “order comments” during checkout. Please be sure to specify that you want the “CANDLEMAS BLESSING.”
- Please limit your order to pillar and taper candles. There is limited space in the sanctuary; WE WILL NOT be able to have votive candles and tea lights blessed on this day.
- Please note that your order will not be shipped until after the Purification Mass (Feb. 2nd). This includes any other items in your order such as books, scapulars, medals etc. If you have items that you want sooner, please place a second, separate order. Also, depending on the amount of orders we receive, it may take us several days after the feast day to ship all of the Purification candle orders.
SEE OUR CANDLE SELECTION to place an order
Read more about the Feast of Candlemas and this special liturgical blessing for candles
“St. Anselm […] bids us to consider three things in the blessed Candle: the wax, the wick, and the flame. The wax, he says, which is the production of the virginal bee, is the Flesh of our Lord; the wick, which is within, is His Soul; the flame, which burns on the top, is his Divinity. Formerly, the faithful looked upon it as an honor to be permitted to bring their wax tapers to the Church, on this Feast of the Purification, that they might be blessed together with those which were to be borne in the procession by the Priests and sacred Ministers; and the same custom is still observed in some congregations. It would be well if Pastors were to encourage this practice, retaining it where it exists, or establishing it where it is not known. There has been such a systematic effort made to destroy, or at least impoverish, the exterior rites and practices of religion, that we find throughout the world, thousands of Christians who have been insensibly made strangers to those admirable sentiments of faith, which the Church alone, in her Liturgy, can give to the body of the faithful. Thus, we shall be telling many what they have never heard before, when we inform them that the Church blesses the candles, not only to be carried in the Procession, which forms part of the ceremony for today, but also for the use of the faithful, inasmuch as they draw upon such as use them with respect, whether on sea or on land, as the Church says in the Prayer, special blessings from heaven. These blessed Candles ought also to be lit near the bed of the dying Christian, as a symbol of the immortality merited for us by Christ, and of the protection of our Blessed Lady.” - Abbot Gueranger, Liturgical Year
