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Lights of Love in five places of worship to remember those we have lost
02/12/2021
Hospice organises a joint service to be shared regardless of tradition or beliefs
Katharine House Hospice’s Lights of Love service returns this evening after last year’s event moved to a virtual setting due to the pandemic. This year the opportunity to remember those that we have lost is being shared across five different places of worship, with a joint service regardless of tradition or beliefs.
The evening has been put together by the Katharine House Chaplin, James Grote, who has put off his retirement by two weeks so he can be part of the event.
Ahead of the service the lights on the Christmas tree at Banbury Cross will be turned on followed by a candlelit parade to the places of worship. The service will then start at 7.30pm in St Mary’s Church on the Horse Fair, St John’s Roman Catholic Church on South Bar, the Marlborough Road Methodist Church on Marlborough Rd, the Sheikh Abdul Aziz ibn Baaz Mosque on Park Road and the People’s Church on the Horse Fair.
Cherida Plumb from the Hospice said: “Its not just people who’ve been lost at the Hospice that we need to remember its people who we’ve lost through the whole of the COVID period.
“With people not being able to hold funerals as they would normally do we’ve missed that community side of remembering people.
“This year in partnership with five places of worship we’re asking all the congregations from those places to come together to remember all those we have lost. They will all have the same service so we’ll be remembering together as a community.”
Published: by Banbury FM Newsteam