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Lights and voices.
That is what we bring to Candlemas: lights and voices. We offer to God the sound of our human voices which is the true and laudable sacrificial act of giving God ourselves in a very real sense —an act to which all of the bloody sacrifices of the Tabernacle pointed. The human body is, as Peter Leithart and Jim Jordan have argued, the original instrument.
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In the Church’s calendar there exist a set of feast days in which Mary, the mother of Our Lord, plays a leading role. And while among this number there are those that vary from tradition to tradition (Lutheran, Roman, Eastern, etc.) a solid handful are so ecumenical, so “everywhere-by-everyone-in-every-age”, that the burden of proof lies on those who would contest their place in Our Calendar.
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