[Magdalen] Punxsutawney Phil.

[Ann Markle]

No, as to the candles.  Many churches now use plastic candles filled with
oil (including our church -- and I don't care for them).  Lots of churches
also use paraffin, and I don't care for the smell. Nothing like the smell
in a church of beeswax candles!  Better than incense, IMO.

The version of the Song of Simeon that's in our BCP is nicer than this, I
think.  I love it, too, and always use it in my evening and/or nighttime
prayers, as well as at the end of funerals.


Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu

On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 4:24 PM, cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> It's a big day in the Western Pennsylvania town of Punxsutawney.  It's the
> day of the groundhog and shadows, etc.
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> It's also on the liturgical calendar as the Feasts of the Purification of
> the BVM, the Presentation of Our lord, and Candlemas.
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> I always love the Nunc Dimittis sung on this day:
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> <Lord, now you let your servant go in peace,
> your word has been fulfilled:
> My own eyes have seen the salvation,
> which you have prepared in the sight of every people:
> a light to reveal you to the nations
> and the glory of your people Israel.>
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> Do candles for the liturgical year have to have some
> percentage of beeswax?
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> David S.
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