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UPCOMING EVENTS
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15TH
WORLDWIDE CANDLE LIGHTING MEMORIAL EVENT
SUNDAY
December 11, 2011 6:30 PM
Lafreniere Park 3000
Downs Blvd., Metairie, LA
Please
join us as we honor and remember of children.
The Compassionate
Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting unites family and friends around the
globe in lighting candles for one hour to honor and remember children
who have died at any age from any cause. As candles are lit at 7 p.m.
local time, creating a virtual wave of light, hundreds of thousands of
persons commemorate and honor the memory of children in a way that
transcends all ethnic, cultural, religious, and political boundaries.
Now believed to be the largest mass candle lighting on
the globe, the Worldwide Candle Lighting, a gift to the bereavement
community from The Compassionate Friends, creates a virtual 24-hour wave
of light as it moves from time zone to time zone. Hundreds of formal
candle lighting events are held and thousands of informal candle
lightings are conducted in homes as families gather in quiet remembrance
of children who have died, but will never be forgotten.
The Worldwide Candle Lighting started in the United
States in 1997 as a small Internet observance but has since swelled in
numbers as word has spread throughout the world of the remembrance.
More information is available
here.
RECENT EVENTS
November 15, 2010
THE ANGELS ACROSS THE USA TOUR
March 12, 2011
A DAY WITH MITCH AND ALAN
May 1, 2011
ANNUAL BUTTERFLY RELEASE AND PICNIC
October 23, 2011
6TH ANNUAL WALK TO REMEMBER
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THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS