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School Children help York Minster Prepare for Advent
On Friday November 27th at 9.30 am, children from the Minster School will help to finish the Advent Wreath, ready for Advent Sunday two days later.
Advent is the countdown time, full of rising excitement and the sense of Christmas coming. An Advent Wreath is a circle of candles which are lit in turn every Sunday in the four weeks leading to Christmas. Each candle recalls the people of the Hebrew scripture (the Old Testament) who prepared for the coming of the Messiah. The last is for Mary the mother of Jesus.
The Wreath at York Minster is so big that the children have to help the Head Verger, Alex Carberry, to get it ready. It is constructed by the Stoneyard of the Minster, is 3 metres in diameter and weights 184 Kg. The Minster's flower arrangers help too, using ivy from the grounds of Bishopthorpe Palace. Then every Sunday morning at 10 a.m. one of the children will light that week's candle and by a remote button the whole wreath rises 8 metres from the floor, directly under the central tower of the Minster.
Finally, as Christmas arrives, the fifth and central candle is lit, as a sign that Jesus Christ is born. And when the Advent Wreath is fully lit, Christmas will be here, and all the carols and bells ring out.
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