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7 haïkus (dans le même ordre que les photos auxquelles ils correspondent):

1) Lac Memphrémagog… Comme un serpent de mer, je Rampe sur la glace

2) La bordée de neige, Tel le mont Orford, s’assoit… Sur le paysage

3) Un, deux kilomètres À pied, ça use, ça use… Les bottes d'hiver

4) Au lac des Nations, Comme un poisson dans la neige… Je marche sur l’eau

5) S’y posent pluies, neige… La paume de ma main tient Le cercle de vie

6) Rayons du soleil… Sur vous, je fais de la luge, Glissant dans le soir

Presentation of Christ in the Temple, from the Sherbrooke Missal.

The Sherbrooke Missal is one of the earliest examples of a Missal that was produced in England, dating from circa 1310 to 1320.

Only two other Missals from an English source are known to pre-date the Sherbrooke Missal. However, the Sherbrooke Missal is unusual as it contains many beautiful miniatures which are depictions of the manuscript's text

February 2nd, Candlemas

Candlemas, or the Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple and the Purification of the Blessed Virgin commemorates the purification (or churching, as medieval people would have seen it) of the Virgin Mary forty days after the birth of Jesus Christ, when it was traditional for the mother to make an offering or sacrifice according to Jewish law, and the presentation of the baby Jesus at the temple in Bethlehem.

"The season of Christmas, which includes the celebration of the visit of the wise men to the child at Epiphany, lasts for forty days and ends with the Feast of Candlemas on 2nd February ... this feast of Candlemas, celebrated by the lighting and extinguishing of candles (hence its name), is a bittersweet feast, for the old man also warns the child’s mother of the pain and suffering she is to face because of her Son. So Candlemas looks backwards to the birth of the child and the joy of Christmas, but also forwards to the suffering and death on the cross." Wells Cathedral

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