Excited
children helped to answer Steve’s questions about the events of Christmas –
what happened – what did it mean? Then our young people acted out the story of
that first Christmas, with some modern explanations (Mary: “I’m about to pop!”)
Then came
the retelling of the meaning of Christmas, using Christingles (see previous
blog), illustrated by children holding giant replicas of the parts. All the
Christingles were then distributed and were lit while we sang “Silent night.”
For
prayers, we were all invited to write our prayer on a strip of paper (a piece
of “hay”) and leave them in the crib.
There were mince pies and biscuits for everyone,
afterwards.
Next, at
11.30 p.m. comes the Midnight Christmas Communion.
