I recently learned, much to my chagrin, that the candles used for the blessing of throats on the feast of St Blaise have a proper blessing and that they are connected to an incident in the Saint’s life. I had thought candles were used because of the previous day’s festival. Either way, it’s important that we recover a sense of the sacredness of time by celebrating these three feasts, as well as all the others, along with the cycles of nature. Our ancestors knew the value of this. We, in our modern, progressive world, have forgotten it. Thank you for the reminder.
I recently learned, much to my chagrin, that the candles used for the blessing of throats on the feast of St Blaise have a proper blessing and that they are connected to an incident in the Saint’s life. I had thought candles were used because of the previous day’s festival. Either way, it’s important that we recover a sense of the sacredness of time by celebrating these three feasts, as well as all the others, along with the cycles of nature. Our ancestors knew the value of this. We, in our modern, progressive world, have forgotten it. Thank you for the reminder.