Editing Presentation of Jesus (section)

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[[File:The Candlemas day 1731.jpg|thumb|''Meeting of the Lord'', Orthodox [[icon]] from [[Belarus]] (1731)]]

In the Eastern and Western [[Liturgical year|liturgical calendars]] the Presentation of the Lord falls on 2 February, forty days (inclusive) after [[Christmas]]. In the Church of England it may be celebrated on this day, or on the Sunday between 28 January and 3 February. This feast never falls in Lent; the earliest that Ash Wednesday can fall is 4 February, for the case of Easter on 22 March in a non-leap year.  However, in the Tridentine rite, it can fall in the pre-Lenten season if Easter is early enough, and "Alleluia" has to be omitted from this feast's liturgy when that happens.

In [[Swedish Church|Swedish]] and [[Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church|Finnish Lutheran Churches]],
Candlemas is (since 1774) always celebrated on a [[Sunday]], at earliest on 2 February and at latest on 8 February, except if this Sunday happens to be the last Sunday before [[Lent]], i.e. [[Shrove Sunday]] or [[Quinquagesima]] ({{langx|sv|Fastlagssöndagen}}, {{langx|fi|Laskiaissunnuntai}}), in which case Candlemas is celebrated one week earlier.<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Oja | title = Aikakirja 2007 | year = 2007 | pages = 175–176 | location = Helsinki | publisher = Almanach office of [[Helsinki University]] | isbn = 978-952-10-3221-9 | url = http://almanakka.helsinki.fi/aikakirja/Aikakirja2007kokonaan.pdf | language = fi | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110322045417/http://almanakka.helsinki.fi/aikakirja/Aikakirja2007kokonaan.pdf | archive-date = 22 March 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://evl.fi/EVLfi.nsf/Documents/A41353ABC5A3364FC225708400246DFB?OpenDocument&lang=FI | title = Kynttilänpäivä on valoisa Kristus-juhla | publisher = [[Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church]] | access-date = 2014-02-18 | language = fi}}</ref>

In the [[Armenian Apostolic Church]], the Feast, called "The Coming of the Son of God into the Temple"<ref name=EB1911/> (''Tiarn'ndaraj'', from ''Tyarn-'', "the Lord", and ''-undarach'' "going forward"), is celebrated on 14 February. The Armenians do not celebrate the Nativity on 25 December, but on 6 January, and thus their date of the feast is 40 days after that: 14 February. The night before the feast, Armenians traditionally light candles during an evening church service, carrying the flame out into the darkness (symbolically bringing light into the void) and either take it home to light lamps or light a bonfire in the church courtyard.