A comparison of the blessing of candles in East and West (by an Orthodox blogger):From East to West
An article with analysis of the 1960 reform of the rites of Candlemass (by an Anglo-Catholic blogger):
The Language of the Liturgy
(The picture comes from the website of the Society of St. Hugh of Cluny.)
And, lest our appreciation of the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin be limited to things liturgical, I would like to recommend the following meditation from Vultus Christi (a Catholic blog!):
