At 4.30pm on Christmas Eve, and with four red candles casting flickering beams of hope, joy, peace and love our Advent wreath once again took centre stage.
Before long, however, and one by one these symbols of the tenets of the Christian faith were joined by a hundred or so others as with great care an array of Christingles were lit.
In recent years MBC’s Christingle Service has become not only one of our most loved and best supported events, but in terms of community outreach a shop window with which people for whom church is the exception rather than the norm can safely engage.
Of course the following day, Christmas Day, we lit the wreath’s centre candle, the Jesus candle, which completed the Advent cycle.
But what we all need to remember now is that as one year makes way for another it is only by igniting or perhaps that ought to be reigniting our own flickering flames – those of hope, joy, peace and love that the true light of the world, Jesus, may shine through.
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