On Sunday 19 October, after the Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of St. Sergius of Radonezh, an exciting activity for Sunday school students - a master class on candle making - took place. It was conducted by Victor, a parishioner of our church, who shared his experience and told the children about the ancient church craft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Under Victor's guidance, the children from the younger and older Sunday school groups participated step-by-step in all stages of candle making. The children carefully placed the wicks in the candle moulds; oiled the moulds; watched the wax sink and soften on the cooker; the older students helped pour the melted wax into the moulds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While the wax was cooling, small wax hearts were made for the children as a memento of the masterclass, which each child took home with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Matushka Elena told the children about the spiritual significance and practical use of the church candle in the life of an Orthodox Christian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The children saw with their own eyes how a candle is born from simple wax - the same candle that burns in our church in front of the icons and accompanies every prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the candles had cooled down completely, the children, together with Victor, opened the moulds and took out the finished candles. Everyone felt like a real master and helper of the Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thank you to Victor and Mother Helena for this inspiring masterclass.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Sunday 19 October, after the Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of St. Sergius of Radonezh an exciting activity for Sunday school students - a master class on making...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":2171,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tekushhaya-zhizn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-sergius.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-sergius.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-sergius.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-sergius.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-sergius.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-sergius.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5562,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-sergius.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions\/5562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-sergius.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-sergius.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-sergius.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-sergius.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}