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Included:

basket,

linen liner,

Brass Taper holder

25 medium orthodox tapers 100% beeswax candles,

LG 100% Beeswax prayer candle in glass

ALL handmade in the USA.

 

It is customary to bring this basket to mass on candlemas to be blessed by the priest at mass. It is also tradition to have 100% beeswax taper sick call set candles in the basket. Sick call candles are lit at the bedside of the sick or dying. One meets the priest at the door with a lit candle in hand. “ St. Anselm […] bids us to consider three things in the blessed Candle: the wax, wick, and the flame. The wax, he says, which is the production of the virginal bee, is the Flesh of our Lord; the wick, which is within, is His Soul; the flame, which burns on the top, is his Divinity. Formerly, the faithful looked upon it as an honor to be permitted to bring their wax tapers to the Church, on this Feast of the Purification, that they might be blessed together with those which were to be borne in the procession by the Priests and sacred Ministers; and the same custom is still observed in some congregations. It would be well if Pastors were to encourage this practice, retaining it where it exists, or establishing it where it is not known. There has been such a systematic effort made to destroy, or at least impoverish, the exterior rites and practices of religion, that we find throughout the world, thousands of Christians who have been insensibly made strangers to those admirable sentiments of faith, which the Church alone, in her Liturgy, can give to the body of the faithful. Thus, we shall be telling many what they have never heard before, when we inform them that the Church blesses the candles, not only to be carried in the Procession, which forms part of the ceremony for Candlemas, but also for the use of the faithful, inasmuch as they draw upon such as use them with respect, whether on sea or on land, as the Church says in the Prayer, special blessings from heaven. These blessed Candles ought also to be lit near the bed of the dying Christian, as a symbol of the immortality merited for us by Christ, and of the protection of our Blessed Lady.” (from the Sisters of Carmel website)

Candlemas Basket

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    In the mid 1800's Letaille Printing House, a Parisian lace holy card printer released a series of holy cards (Divine Pilot) that were the inspiration of many of the faithful. (Even our dear Saint Therese of Lisieux)

    This series was so respected for it's teaching that even The Protestant Sunday School Association of New York released a book that featured only 10 of the holy cards from the series. It has been unknown for awhile as to how many are actually in this series.

     

    After nearly a decade of research and careful communication with other collectors and antique art dealers from all over the world, our family is believed to be the only source at this time who owns the collection of 13 in it's entirety. (Though we are always looking for another.) We are pleased to present to the faithful for the first time in history, the entire collection of the Divine Pilot holy card series in this magazine issue of Immagini Sacre.

     

    These are the very same images that were the spiritual formation of Saint Therese of Lisieux.

     

    Discover the hidden contemplative holy cards of the mid 1800's and the message they carried.

     

    Thank you for your support in this project as we purchase, photograph, document, & reproduce the contemplative holy images of the past.

     

    Please remember us in prayer, as we remember you.

     

    May God grace you with holy perseverance to the port of salvation.

     

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    GALATIANS 6:9

     

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