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Bet you thought that Christmas ended ages ago! Well Candlemas on 2^nd February marks the real end of the season of Christmas and the beginning of the preparation for the next festival, Easter.

It is the traditional time for a good clean up. All Christmas decorations had to be taken down by this day. Can you imagine how scruffy and dusty they would have been by now? Churches had to be cleaned too.

Candlemas celebrates the Presentation of Jesus at the temple 40 days after he was born. It is called Candlemas because candles are lit to remind us that when Jesus was presented, Simeon, an old servant in the Temple, said that Jesus was the Light that God had sent to the Gentiles (non Jews).

You can read more about this in St Luke's Gospel, chapter 2.

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