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GLORY GLORY GLORY ;-)

kandj. Remember seeing my little daughter take part in a Christingle in Ely Cathedral many years ago. Massive Cathedral, absolutely packed with children and parents. No lights on. Just flickering candles from each child's orange. :-D

Why do you keep harping on about religion. :-\

Carol

Loved the Midnight Mass service, coming out of church in the early hours of Christmas morning was just magical and still is very special for me and my family.

What did St Peter preach at Pentecost? From Catholic on-line:

People of Israel, listen to what I am going to say: Jesus the Nazarene was a man commended to you by God by the miracles and portents and signs that God worked through him when he was among you, as you know.

This man, who was put into your power by the deliberate intention and foreknowledge of God, you took and had crucified and killed by men outside the Law.

But God raised him to life, freeing him from the pangs of Hades; for it was impossible for him to be held in its power since, as David says of him: I kept the Lord before my sight always, for with him at my right hand nothing can shake me.

So my heart rejoiced my tongue delighted; my body, too, will rest secure, for you will not abandon me to Hades or allow your holy one to see corruption.

You have taught me the way of life, you will fill me with joy in your presence.

'Brothers, no one can deny that the patriarch David himself is dead and buried: his tomb is still with us.

But since he was a prophet, and knew that God had sworn him an oath to make one of his descendants succeed him on the throne, he spoke with foreknowledge about the resurrection of the Christ: he is the one who was not abandoned to Hades, and whose body did not see corruption.

God raised this man Jesus to life, and of that we are all witnesses.

Now raised to the heights by God's right hand, he has received from the Father the Holy Spirit, who was promised, and what you see and hear is the outpouring of that Spirit.

For David himself never went up to heaven, but yet he said: The Lord declared to my Lord, take your seat at my right hand, till I have made your enemies your footstool.

'For this reason the whole House of Israel can be certain that the Lord and Christ whom God has made is this Jesus whom you crucified.'

Hearing this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, 'What are we to do, brothers?'

'You must repent,' Peter answered, 'and every one of you must be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise that was made is for you and your children, and for all those who are far away, for all those whom the Lord our God is calling to himself.'

He (St Peter) spoke to them for a long time using many other arguments, and he urged them, 'Save yourselves from this perverse generation.'

They accepted what he said and were baptised. That very day about three thousand were added to their number.

Because Jesus, the Jewish Messiah, died and was raised back to life for ever and ever, we rise from our eventual death. It is sure and certain, friends. You live in the new Jerusalem, you are a citizen of the new Israel. And you must claim Jesus as your Saviour. Look to Him, look to the Cross. There is no other way to attain everlasting and heavenly, love-filled and painless life.

First step may be attending your favourite local church or chapel on 8th June 2014.