Beautiful and spectacular Xmas Celebration and Choir Concert in Aix

Today, Sunday December 6th, 2009,
the International Christian Congregation of Provence organized a wonderful Christmas Celebration with its own choir in Aix’s own impressive Saint Sauveur Cathedral.

Between 3:30 and 5 :15 PM the fully packed cathedral audience enjoyed English Christmas carrols, whether British, French ( like the Gloria) or American. The songs were intermixed with short readings by parishioners from the Bible in English.

The audience, where many were French speakers, was asked to participate on several occasions. When singing ” The twelve days of Christmas”, they were invited to stand up when their birthday fell on the first month and the song was on ” The first day of Christmas”, and so on for the twelve months and twelve days. It was fun seeing people pop up and down among the churchgoers!

At the end the cathedral went dark and a beautiful general candle lighting happened, where attendees were all given a candle, which was lit by neighbouring attendees, after the “co leaders” (ministers) started ‘ spreading the light’, which was the message behind the action.

For more information on future events by the ICCP, see their web site here:
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