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Annual Worldwide Candle Lighting Services – Countries Outside the United States

IMPORTANT: If you attempt to submit your candle lighting service and we do not contact you or your service is not listed within 48 hours, please contact Joan@compassionatefriends.org.

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Countries Outside of the United States: Australia, Canada, France, Mexico, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Slovakia

Australia

Maitland

The H.O.P.E Support Group Inc

Date & Time:
December 11, 2022 - 6:30 PM
Location:

Ministers Park Maitland

Highlights:

Poetry reading, music, and bagpiper.

Bring:

Chair, water, and snacks.

Contact:
Michelle Davis
Email:
shhelba@primus.com.au

Canada

Sherwood Park, Alberta

The Compassionate Friends of Strathcona County and Edmonton Region

Date & Time:
December 11, 2022 - 2:00 PM
Location:

A beautiful afternoon filled with compassion as we gather together to honor our child(ren), grandchild(ren) and sibling(s), who have all died at different ages, from different causes. Program will begin at 2:00 PM.

This special event will be held at Glenwood Memorial Gardens, located at 52356 Range Road 232 in Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada.

Highlights:

Our Candle Lighting will include music, speakers, reading of our child(ren), grandchild(ren) and sibling(s) names, a slide show and candles will be lit for each baby and child.

Bring:

Please bring along framed photos if you wish to display on our “Memory Table”.

Special Events (before):

n/a

Special Events (after):

n/a

Contact:
Chy Salter-Roberts
Email:
briarpatchkids@hotmail.com
Additional:

If you are unable to attend but would like your child(ren), grandchild(ren) and sibling(s) name to be read out and honored, please send along to our email: briarpatchkids@hotmail.com.

We will be inviting families to post photos of their lit candles on our Facebook pages beginning at 7:00 PM on Sunday, December 11th, 2022.

Pages are https://www.facebook.com/groups/7960725094 (H.E.A.R.T.S. Baby Loss Support Program), https://www.facebook.com/groups/206201382882813 (Baby Steps Walk to Remember) and https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100067420217140 (The Compassionate Friends of Strathcona County and Edmonton Region.

Victoria, B.C.

The Compassionate Friends Victoria Chapter

Date & Time:
December 11, 2022 - 7:00 PM
Location:

Cordova Bay United Church
813 Claremont Avenue
Victoria, B.C. Canada

Highlights:

Speaker
Soloist
Music
Poem Readers
All attending parents/families’ light candles in remembrance of their child(ren), grandchild(ren), and sibling(s).

Bring:

Labelled photograph for the Table of Tribute

Special Events (after):

Reception to follow … refreshments are provided

Contact:
Dianne Taaffe
Email:
dtaaffe17@telus.net

France

Vesoul

Association Familles en Deuil d’un Ebfant (AFDE)

Date & Time:
December 11, 2022 - 10h30
Location:

Chapelle de l’Ehpad de Neurey les la Demie – Haute Saône – (70)

Highlights:

Accrochage d’étoiles, pose de bougies sur une étoile posée au sol, lecture de témoignages, chants (chorale), musique, …

Special Events (before):

Accrochage d’étoiles ce matin au sapin planté à coté de la Stèle à l’enfance brisée (Roses for children) au Jardin Anglais à Vesoul. Quiconque passant par là pourra y accrocher une étoile pour son enfant, son frère ou sa soeur. Et cela demeurera possible jusqu’à fin décembre.

Special Events (after):

Déjeuner pris en commun à proximité (sur réservation auprès de l’association Familles en Deuil d’un Enfant, siège à Vesoul)
Concernant notre association: www.familles-deuil-enfant.fr

Contact:
Patrick Thierry
Email:
afde.hautesaone@gmail.com

Mexico

New Zealand

Whanganui

The Compassionate Friends Bereaved Parents Grief Support Whanganui

Date & Time:
December 11, 2022 - 6.45 PM
Location:

Virginia Lake, Whanganui by the Peter Pan statue

Highlights:

Readings, Music, and Roll Call of our child(ren), grandchild(ren), and sibling(s) names: Candle Lighting at 7:00 PM {Candles will be supplied}

Bring:

Photos of your child(ren), grandchild(ren), sibling(s), and picnic chair if needed.

Special Events (after):

Light refreshments – Juice and finger food. Children can do a special activity relating to the Peter Pan Statue ( the boy who never grew up)

Contact:
Keren Elizabeth Marsh
Telephone:
+6463443344
Email:
marshkandb@gmail.com
Additional:

TCF will keep the candles burning until 8:00 PM. Attendees are welcome to stay or continue on to the City Carol Service at Moutua Gardens.

Puerto Rico

Guaynab

Los Amigos Compasivos

Date & Time:
December 11, 2022 - 5:00 - 8:30 PM
Location:

ViotCa D-26, Terr. de ynab

Highlights:

The program will be held at Centro Yolanda Guerrero in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Dr. Ada Rosabal, Psychologist and bereaved mother, will be speaking, the Credos will be read, invocation will take place, special music will be played, a well-known local soprano will participate, child(ren), sibling(s), and grandchild(ren) photos will be projected on a large screen, child(ren), sibling(s), and grandchild(ren) names will be read and their parent(s), sibling(s) and grandparent(s) will stand briefly and a bell will sound for each name read.

Bring:

Attendees will bring pictures, remembrances, refreshments, snacks, and pastries.

Special Events (before):

Candle lighting will be held at 7:00 PM local time and the soprano will perform a very moving piece accompanied by a Spanish guitar player.

Contact:
Nivia Vazquez
Telephone:
787-590-3377
Email:
nvazquez93@hotmail.com
Additional:

Decoration of the venue by volunteers will be held in the morning. Every bereaved family is encouraged to attend this moving and lovely activity that will be full of hope, understanding and love. Bienvenidos todos!

Slovakia

Slovakia

Svetový deň – Zapáľme sviečku na pamiatku zosnulých detí

Date & Time:
December 11, 2022 - 6:30 PM
Location:

Virtual meeting and lighting of candles on Facebook page and Facebook event, which are dedicated to the memory of our child(ren), sibling(s), and grandchild(ren).

translation: Virtuálne stretnutie a zapálenie sviečky na fb stránke Sviečka na pamiatku zosnulých detí / Svíčka na památku zesnulých dětí a fb podujatí Svetový deň – Zapáľme sviečku na pamiatku zosnulých detí, ktoré sú venované pamiatke zosnulých detí.

Highlights:

We will share photos of our child(ren), sibling(s), and grandchild(ren) music, and poems.  We will remember our dear child(ren), sibling(s), grandchild(ren) with love.

translation: Budeme zdieľať fotky našich detí, hudbu, básničky, pozdravy do neba a modlitby. Budeme s láskou spomínať na naše drahé deti.

Bring:

Photo and candle.

translation: fotku a sviečku.

Contact:
Zlati Bačíková, fb page Sviečka na pamiatku zosnulých detí / Svíčka na památku zesnulých dětí
Email:
svieckapreanjeliky@gmail.com
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