{"id":26456,"date":"2020-12-19T22:31:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T22:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26456"},"modified":"2020-12-19T22:31:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T22:31:04","slug":"diy-christingle-packs-and-a-peep-inside-st-helens-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26456","title":{"rendered":"DIY Christingle packs and a peep inside St Helen&#8217;s Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20121903.jpg\" alt=\"Christingle\" \/><br \/>\nAnyone walking by St Helen&#8217;s Church today would have seen sheep and angels stuck to the windows.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/201219037.jpg\" alt=\"Christingle\" \/><br \/>\nThey led to the crib where DIY Christingle packs were being handed out. Normally the Christingles are made by volunteers on Christmas Eve before the popular Christingle Service. This year you make your own Christingle at home and join the service using Zoom.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/201219034.jpg\" alt=\"Christingle\" \/><br \/>\nThere will be three services in St Helen&#8217;s in front of the main alter on Sunday 20th. Up to now only the side aisle has been used, when the church was allowed to open at all.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/201219035.jpg\" alt=\"Christingle\" \/><br \/>\nThe scaffolding has been cleared from most of the church (ceiling plaster had fallen and this work was needed).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20121902.jpg\" alt=\"Christingle\" \/><br \/>\nWhen I got home I made a Christingle using the DIY kit. The leaflet that came with it, explains:<br \/>\nDried fruits \/ sweets = the fruits of the earth<br \/>\nCandle = Christ, the light of the world<br \/>\nThe Orange = The World<br \/>\nRed ribbon = Christ&#8217;s blood shed for the world<br \/>\n4 cocktail sticks = the seasons<br \/>\nfoil &#8211; protects fingers and reminds us we can all reflect the light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone walking by St Helen&#8217;s Church today would have seen sheep and angels stuck to the windows. They led to the crib where DIY Christingle packs were being handed out. Normally the Christingles are made by volunteers on Christmas Eve before the popular Christingle Service. This year you make your own Christingle at home and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}