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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 261151" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Sharon, enjoy the cruise. Have a pi&#241;a colada for me...</p><p></p><p>Kjs, the candle is the main altar candle (Paschal candle) and is lit every Sunday during the church service. There are fairly standard decoration elements for these candles (the cross, the year, the alpha and omega) but after they are there, it's a very individual thing. This candle is about as thick as a man's forearm and about twice as long. We have a copper pipe that husband procured for te job. Before that the candle was moulded in a PVC drainpipe, but years of very hot wax was distorting the pipe and making unmoulding tricky. With that shape and size, the shrinkage effect of the cooling wax makes the job tricky, a cavity formss down the middle and I need to keep it filled with more wax and not let an air bubble form. If I miss an air bubble, then at some later stage in the year when the candle burns down to it, there will be a whoosh and suddenly the candle will burn down fast and hot. Not good, for something that has to last a year! So I have to be patient and keep watch, armed with a long satay stick.</p><p></p><p>I've had a little practice tonight with the new glass paints I bought, I need to make sure they will stick to the wax. Glass paints don't always work, sometimes they just rub off again too easily. I had some good ones last year, except that a couple of colours were too pale. This year I've got a black glass paint liner pen, if it works right it should make the candle look like a stained glass window effect, where I paint it.</p><p></p><p>As for the date of Palm Sunday, orthodox churches around the world have a different calendar most of the time, they seem more closely aligned with Passover's date in the Jewish calendar. My GP is Coptic Orthodox, last year they had Easter two weeks later. It's important for me to know this, so I don't try to ring for an appointment during their Easter. Orthodox Easter is one week later this year. difficult child 1 is thinking of going to the Coptic church for Easter this year, I recommended the Saturday midnight service for Greek Orthodox, but I think Coptic might be similar... we do have a Greek Orthodox church in the area too, the kids have choice. </p><p></p><p>Today at church the woman sitting next to husband mentioned she'd been in to the Great Synagogue in the heart of Sydney for the beginning of Passover. We're a fairly ecumenical mob.</p><p></p><p>Feast days such as Easter and related feast days, are called movable feasts because their date varies from year to year. When husband was younger, the back of the Anglican church hymn book had a list of these movable feast days headed "Table of Movable Feasts". At our church we have a serving table on castors, it is loaded with whatever we're eating for lunch after church and wheeled out onto the veranda. It's called the Table of Movable Feasts.</p><p></p><p>It's going to be a busy week...</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 261151, member: 1991"] Sharon, enjoy the cruise. Have a piña colada for me... Kjs, the candle is the main altar candle (Paschal candle) and is lit every Sunday during the church service. There are fairly standard decoration elements for these candles (the cross, the year, the alpha and omega) but after they are there, it's a very individual thing. This candle is about as thick as a man's forearm and about twice as long. We have a copper pipe that husband procured for te job. Before that the candle was moulded in a PVC drainpipe, but years of very hot wax was distorting the pipe and making unmoulding tricky. With that shape and size, the shrinkage effect of the cooling wax makes the job tricky, a cavity formss down the middle and I need to keep it filled with more wax and not let an air bubble form. If I miss an air bubble, then at some later stage in the year when the candle burns down to it, there will be a whoosh and suddenly the candle will burn down fast and hot. Not good, for something that has to last a year! So I have to be patient and keep watch, armed with a long satay stick. I've had a little practice tonight with the new glass paints I bought, I need to make sure they will stick to the wax. Glass paints don't always work, sometimes they just rub off again too easily. I had some good ones last year, except that a couple of colours were too pale. This year I've got a black glass paint liner pen, if it works right it should make the candle look like a stained glass window effect, where I paint it. As for the date of Palm Sunday, orthodox churches around the world have a different calendar most of the time, they seem more closely aligned with Passover's date in the Jewish calendar. My GP is Coptic Orthodox, last year they had Easter two weeks later. It's important for me to know this, so I don't try to ring for an appointment during their Easter. Orthodox Easter is one week later this year. difficult child 1 is thinking of going to the Coptic church for Easter this year, I recommended the Saturday midnight service for Greek Orthodox, but I think Coptic might be similar... we do have a Greek Orthodox church in the area too, the kids have choice. Today at church the woman sitting next to husband mentioned she'd been in to the Great Synagogue in the heart of Sydney for the beginning of Passover. We're a fairly ecumenical mob. Feast days such as Easter and related feast days, are called movable feasts because their date varies from year to year. When husband was younger, the back of the Anglican church hymn book had a list of these movable feast days headed "Table of Movable Feasts". At our church we have a serving table on castors, it is loaded with whatever we're eating for lunch after church and wheeled out onto the veranda. It's called the Table of Movable Feasts. It's going to be a busy week... Marg [/QUOTE]
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