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How will you keep your kids busy this summer vacation?
The inaugural lighting of 40-foot Calvary Oasis Pine
Mon, Dec 3rd, 2012
Posted in Rochester Features
Posted in Rochester Features
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There is now something besides twenty thousand crows sharing the sky over Calvary Episcopal Church. A pine tree in the Calvary Oasis Garden adjacent to the Mayo Building and the Mayo Clinic main entrance on 3rd Avenue stands forty feet tall and is decorated with more than 300 multi-colored lights, a fresh beacon of hope to the downtown Rochester community.
At the inaugural lighting ceremony on Saturday evening, December 1st, a hundred-some Calvary parishioners gathered around the pine with cups of hot cocoa, steaming apple cider, with nibbles of Calvary’s Famous Fruitcake, and with élan and anticipation to witness Mayor Ardell Brede and Father Nick Mezacapa bringing the light into a chilly winter’s night.
“This church is an oasis to a lot of folks from different walks of life and different religions,” Brede said.
Mezacapa agreed, “God goes by many names indeed, but the light is for everybody.”
Once the tree was twinkling, the church family seemed to twinkle a little more too. A crow ornament was placed on the pine inciting a raucous round of laughter from which a woman howled, “Hang it upside down like its dead!” Another joked that someday the tree lighting ceremony might rival the one in Manhattan, “The Calvary Oasis will be just like Roch-afeller Center!”
Holiday joy, warmth, and glad tidings spread as lights lace buildings and greenery, as family and friends find one another for feast and fellowship, as more and more in this city we are blessed with occasions to look up.
“We at our church believe in a light that can never be defeated,” said Mezacapa in benediction, “We are giving the spirit of that light away to Rochester, Minnesota.”
At the inaugural lighting ceremony on Saturday evening, December 1st, a hundred-some Calvary parishioners gathered around the pine with cups of hot cocoa, steaming apple cider, with nibbles of Calvary’s Famous Fruitcake, and with élan and anticipation to witness Mayor Ardell Brede and Father Nick Mezacapa bringing the light into a chilly winter’s night.
“This church is an oasis to a lot of folks from different walks of life and different religions,” Brede said.
Mezacapa agreed, “God goes by many names indeed, but the light is for everybody.”
Once the tree was twinkling, the church family seemed to twinkle a little more too. A crow ornament was placed on the pine inciting a raucous round of laughter from which a woman howled, “Hang it upside down like its dead!” Another joked that someday the tree lighting ceremony might rival the one in Manhattan, “The Calvary Oasis will be just like Roch-afeller Center!”
Holiday joy, warmth, and glad tidings spread as lights lace buildings and greenery, as family and friends find one another for feast and fellowship, as more and more in this city we are blessed with occasions to look up.
“We at our church believe in a light that can never be defeated,” said Mezacapa in benediction, “We are giving the spirit of that light away to Rochester, Minnesota.”
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