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SUMMARY:Christingle
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DESCRIPTION:Join us at our Christingle celebration\, accompanied by the Sh
 abbington handbells! All ages welcome.\n\n'A Christingle is a symbolic obj
 ect used in the Advent\, Christmas\, and Epiphany services of many Christi
 an denominations. It symbolises the birth of Christ\, the Light of the Wor
 ld. A modern Christingle is made from a candle in an orange (representing 
 the light and the world respectively) which is typically decorated with a 
 red ribbon and sweets or dried fruit. It has been a feature in Moravian ch
 urches across the United Kingdom since before the World Wars. As members o
 f Moravian churches moved away from their home congregations\, they took t
 he custom of Christingles with them and introduced it to other denominatio
 ns. In the 1960s John Pensom adopted it as a fundraising tool for the Chil
 dren's Society of the Church of England.'
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LOCATION:St Nicholas
URL:https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/158/service-and-events/events/12
 48244/
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