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The Christmas Season engrains in our minds Our Lady's great love for Jesus. This is what is characteristic of her heart. Mary teaches us to contemplate Jesus, for her eyes and ears were only focussed on Him. What about us? Today's feast also reminds us that Our Lady has a sorrowful suffering Heart. She suffers so that our hearts will be purified. In Christmastide, God is giving us the heart of His Blessed Mother, so that we may love, contemplate and suffer for Jesus after her example. Today is also Candlemas, the end of the Christmas season, when the Church uses wondrous prayers to bless these candles. Re-read these prayers, for these sacramentals contain much grace for those who, being in a state of grace, use them with faith and piety. May these burning candles inspire you to be faithful to your baptismal promises and enlighten your way to Jesus through Mary.

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