{"id":2789,"date":"2012-02-02T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/02\/candlemas-not-groundhog-day.html"},"modified":"2012-02-02T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T21:25:00","slug":"candlemas-not-groundhog-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/02\/candlemas-not-groundhog-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Candlemas not Groundhog Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

For those who missed it, this day, the 2nd of February, is also the day known as Candlemas.\u00a0 It\u2019s a Catholic thing.\u00a0 For those in Protestant-land who lament the replacing of Christmas with that abstract, non-committal winter holiday that happens to be centered around a shopping day that occurs six days before the New Year, it\u2019s time to get a little of what was given.\u00a0 I have no idea if the reason for Groundhog Day was simply to replace\u00a0an old Catholic Tradition with anything that wasn\u2019t a Catholic Tradition.\u00a0 But over the generations, I can guarantee that few if any are aware that this date actually should carry some meaning.\u00a0 It comes, the 40th day after Christmas, with the usual stockpile of traditions, foods, customs, and all those bells and whistles that once marked a civilization seeped in the story of the Christian faith.\u00a0 Now, its greatest moment for reflection is a groundhog.\u00a0 Here<\/a>, at the always informative, if not a bit traditional, Fisheaters, we have a\u00a0 breakdown of some traditional meanings and approaches to this forgotten day.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those who missed it, this day, the 2nd of February, is also the day known as Candlemas.\u00a0 It\u2019s a Catholic thing.\u00a0 For those in Protestant-land who lament the replacing of Christmas with that abstract, non-committal winter holiday that happens to be centered around a shopping day that occurs six days before the New Year, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nCandlemas not Groundhog Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For those who missed it, this day, the 2nd of February, is also the day known as Candlemas.  It's a Catholic thing.  For those in\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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