[nfbmi-talk] to hold a candle, Part 2

[joe harcz Comcast]

Yes, I wasn't blind when I did that in my youth. But we did have to light 
candles and snuff them out after mass high on the wal. They were mounted 
with sconces and we lit them with extended equipment with a bees wax taper. 
The other side of this contraption had a concave, bell shaped item for 
snuffing out candles.

There was always bees wax that dripped down on our cassocks.

By the way Christine and her husband did attend old St. Mary's for a funeral 
with me.

Dough, her husband commented on how beutiful that old church is.

I do digress though and Chris' description was trully inspiring and very apt 
for explaining the thing to a person who is congenitally blind.

I could see it too in my minds eye.

It was a very nice Christmas gift for all of us.

Peace,

Joe
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry D. Keeler" <lkeeler at comcast.net>
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> bECAUSE THEY DON'T LET US BLIND DUDES LIGHT ALL THE CANDLES!
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>> Great description. Now I come from the Roman Catholic tradition and 
>> lighting candless is pretty standard fair. In fact I often wonderred why 
>> more churches didn't burn down accidently because of that tradition.
>>
>> As a young alter boy it was my task to light candless all around the 
>> alter back in the day.
>>
>> Regardless this is a beutiful ceremony of which you speak both 
>> spiritually and for those who have it, visually.
>>
>> Peace in the New Year,
>>
>> Joe
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>> From: "Christine Boone" <christine_boone at comcast.net>
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>> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 4:09 PM
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>>> Oh it is a beautiful thing to hold candles in the Church on Christmas 
>>> Eve. They turn all the lights out so it is dark.  No one can see a thing 
>>> at all.   and then, at least in our Church, a single candle is lighted 
>>> by someone  at the very front. That lone person holding that single 
>>> candle walks down the center aisle, lighting the candles of all of the 
>>> people sitting along the aisle.  Then those people pass the light to 
>>> their neighbors until the entire church, every person in every row is 
>>> holding a lighted candle and all of those tiny flames came from the one 
>>> single light...like Jesus, through his single life, brought eternal life 
>>> and light to us all!
>>>
>>> Think of it like this Teri:
>>> One person, at the front of the Church, begins by singing a single clear 
>>> note and, one by one, the note is taken up by each person along the 
>>> center aisle and then spreading along each row until the whole church is 
>>> filled with the sound...except that, unlike a real congregation where 
>>> the notes would be not quite all the same, those many voices would be as 
>>> one.
>>>
>>> OK, that's my best shot.  Anyone else?
>>>
>>> Christine
>>>
>>> On Dec 27, 2011, at 3:13 PM, <trising at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Federation Family:
>>>>    It turns out that we did not have to process in and out with the 
>>>> candle. It was placed through a plastic cup to hold the wax, and we 
>>>> just held them during the singing of Silent Night. So, I did hold the 
>>>> candle. I held it with two hands, because I was nervous about it, but I 
>>>> held it. It must be some sort of visual thing to hold candles in the 
>>>> church while singing Silent Night. It seems kind of pointless to me. 
>>>> Anyone who has had sight want to explain this?
>>>>
>>>> Terri Wilcox
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