Whitsun Candle Lighting

810 Seminole Road,Atlantic Beach FL 32233

23 May, 2021

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Please join us for a Whitsun Candle Lighting Ceremony for the whole Family to celebrate and honor our community's United Light Endeavors. Please join us for a Whitsun Candle Lighting Ceremony for the whole Family to celebrate and honor our community's United Light Endeavors. In Howell Park, we will have a Unity Candle aflame. There will be individual candles available for us to each ignite our individual light from the Unity Candle, while respecting "social distancing".  Come by anytime between 10 and 12 to light your candle, speak a verse if you would like and take a dove craft and an individual serving of our traditional Organic White Coconut Cake. Traditionally, everyone joins wearing White if they choose. "Spirit in rushing wind and air In sunlight, cloud and rainbow fair Spirit in flame,  snow white flower Come to us with mighty power" - W. Doncaster For more information on Whitsun, here is a beautiful article from Stellenbosch Waldorf School in South Africa. "The festival of Whitsun, which is 50 days after Easter, is, in part the festival of brotherly and sisterly community, when we strive to come together with a new and developing understanding of each other. Whitsun is each person finding the balance between their own individual freedom and the well-being and furtherance of the community, out of understanding and respect for each. The striving during this Whitsuntide is when we are inspired by the divine, we share with our sisters and brothers an enlightened experience and awareness for each other, and for servant leadership – where we serve for the sake of the other. At this time we turn to each other and our light of interest kindles a flame in the other, and so in turn they share their light of interest with another, and so it is that Whitsuntide becomes a myriad of lights, as we all reflect the light of each other."