Family-friendly Christmas Christingle service with a decorated orange, candlelight and a collection for The Children's Society.
St Albans Cathedral is holding its Christingle service on Sunday 13 December, from 2pm to 3pm. It's a family-friendly one, built around the Christingle itself — a decorated orange that serves as a symbol to explore the story of God's love for the world at Christmas. There's candlelight involved, and a collection for The Children's Society.
The service sits within the cathedral's wider Christmas programme, which runs from the Advent Procession on 29 November right through to Carols on Boxing Day. If you're around the city during that stretch, the cathedral is the district's biggest winter attraction, and it stays open daily from 9am to 5pm throughout the season, so you can pop in even when there isn't a service on.
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As for the place itself, it's a shrine to Britain's first saint and is described as the oldest site of continuous Christian worship in Britain — a place of worship, music, learning, heritage and events. That's a lot of roles for one building, but it's the one we've got right here in the centre of town. The Christingle service is one of the family-focused stops in that winter calendar, running for an hour on a Sunday afternoon.
