{"id":33112,"date":"2024-12-24T23:13:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T23:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33112"},"modified":"2024-12-24T23:13:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T23:13:01","slug":"christmas-eve-in-abingdon-bells-christingles-and-candlelight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33112","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve in Abingdon: Bells, Christingles, and Candlelight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024122401.jpg \" \/><br \/>\nThe bells are ringing calling people to the midnight service at St Helen&#8217;s Church. Earlier I looked in and saw all the Christingles ready for the 4 pm Christingle Service at St Helen&#8217;s.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024122403.jpg \" \/><br \/>\nAt Trinity Church, there was also a Christingle Service at 4 pm. After carols and the telling of Jesus&#8217; birth, children and adults made their own Christingles with the help of a large Christingle at the front.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024122405.jpg \" \/><br \/>\nThe Christingle candles were lit, and everybody sang <em>Away in a Manger<\/em>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024122404.jpg \" \/><br \/>\nThe last candle on the advent crown will be lit tomorrow on Christmas Day Morning.<\/p>\n<p>Wishing you a Happy Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bells are ringing calling people to the midnight service at St Helen&#8217;s Church. Earlier I looked in and saw all the Christingles ready for the 4 pm Christingle Service at St Helen&#8217;s. At Trinity Church, there was also a Christingle Service at 4 pm. After carols and the telling of Jesus&#8217; birth, children 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-33112","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\/33112","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=33112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}