Advent candles
Today, we were with friends at St Albans Abbey for this morning’s 9:30 service (the 11:15 service had Jeffrey John preaching, which was a definite missed moment as far as we were concerned). There were lots of children there (40 or so, I’d guess) and they all crowded round the advent candles when they were lit at the start of the service. Today, they lit the second candle (this being the second Sunday of Advent) and the minister reminded the children that last week’s candle represented the Patriarchs. “And who does the second candle stand for?” he asked. “Santa?” came one hopeful response. 
Glad to know that these things happen everywhere! (The correct answer, for any non-Anglicans out there, is “the prophets” – the third candle represents Mary and the fourth John the Baptist, as the forerunners of Christ’s coming into the world.)
pax et bonum
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