Candle Church has been celebrated in Petäjävesi Old Church on Boxing Days since 1998. Before the year 1998 they spent candle church in Petäjävesi New Church but only about twenty people attended , a lot less than now. To Petäjävesi Old Church comes lots of more people, even from neighbouring communes or even longer distances. But now I'm going to tell about the last Candle Church:
- Bible reading, some prayers and a little sermon
- Christmas carols
Programme included:
Outside was a camp fire for sausages and in some years there has been a possibility for children to ride a horse.
There were about 250 people in the church last time. It has been almost full every year. About a half of people were families, third of the people attending being children. And of course there were also older people.
The church lasted for about half-an-hour. In the church there's as cold as outside. It was windy outside during the service but it wasn't cold because the temperature wasn't below zero. Fire fighters and a sacristan needed to do a lot of work to keep candles on. The people had flashlights and seat pads with them and they got to keep their hats on the head.
Over all the Candle church is very popular and a nice event.
Veera
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