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Tomorrow is called Candlemas Day, a day when Christians in the past brought candles to their churches to have the priest bless them.
Today, the feast is more commonly known as the Presentation of the Lord, a day celebrating the presentation of Jesus in the temple as an infant, and the purification of his mother Mary. To learn more about this feast, read the Gospel of Luke 2: 22-40.
In Curarén, the largest of the five municipalities of our parish, the main church is called Our Lady of Candelaria. (If you’ve been following this blog from the beginning, you’ll know that this is the church that is nicknamed, “The Church the Devil Built”). The “Candelaria” refers to this feast day, so the pueblo of Curarén has a festival each year to celebrate the feast.
In the photo above, we see Reynaldo Vásquez in his booth at the festival. Reynaldo is one of the Delegados de la Palabra (Delegads of the Word) of Chaparral, a community of Curarén.
