Today is a very important day in Roman Catholicism...
Norwegian Festival of Lights...It is the feast day of their Saint Lucia...and in the Northern part of Europe they celebrate this festival of lights with carols and and a young girl representing the virgin martyr goes from town to town with a crown of candles and saffron bread...
The celebration seems to be linked to pre-Christian solstice celebrations and Saint Lucy is supposed to be one of the earliest saints...She seems to bare a remarkable resemblance to Juno Lucina "Mother of Lights" the Roman goddess of childbirth who was attending the birth of the Sun Child born in winter...
Today is also the day that the Council of Trent began in 1545...it is one of the most important "ecumenical" councils for the catholic church because it had to address the reformation...they canonized the deuterocanonical books of the Bible like Macabees and Ecclesiaticus...I am always at a loss when one of these books are chosen for the readings in mass...
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