The Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting unites family and friends around the globe in lighting candles for one hour on the second Sunday in December to honor the memories of the sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, and grandchildren who left too soon. As candles are lit at 7 p.m. local time, hundreds of thousands of persons commemorate and honor the memory of all children gone too soon.
The Border Belt Chapter of the Compassionate friends will observe Worldwide Candle Lighting Day on Sunday, Dec. 13, by lighting candles and luminaries at our homes. We invite anyone who wishes to honor a loved one who has died to light a candle at 7 p.m. and keeping it lit for one hour. In using candles indoors the group reminds citizens that unattended candles are flammable and the cause of many housefires. Please use caution.
Now believed to be the largest mass candle lighting on the globe, the 17th annual Worldwide Candle Lighting, a gift to the bereavement community from The Compassionate Friends, creates a virtual 24-hour wave of light as it moves from time zone to time zone. The event began in the United States in 1997 as a small internet observance, but has since swelled in numbers as word has spread throughout the world of the remembrance. Hundreds of formal candle lighting events are held and thousands of informal candle lightings are conducted in homes as families gather in quiet remembrance of children who have died, but will never be forgotten.
The Compassionate Friends welcome allied organizations and local bereavement groups, churches, funeral homes, hospitals, hospices, children’s gardens, schools, cemeteries, and community centers to participate in this years ‘At Home’ candle lighting. Starting in New Zealand, candles will be lit at 7 p.m. local time. As candles burn down in one time zone, they are lit in the next, creating a virtual 24-hour wave of light as the observance continues around the world.
TCF’s website, www.compassionatefriends.org, will host extended chat room hours and a message board for families to post tributes. Tributes are posted from all corners of the world.
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