Fredericksburg, VA Grieving the deaths of children within their families, members of The Compassionate Friends (TCF) of Fredericksburg Chapter, a national self-help bereavement support organization, will join hundreds of thousands of families worldwide in lighting candles at 7 p.m. Sunday, December 8, 2024, as an act of symbolic remembrance for our children, grandchildren, and siblings gone too soon and their light will forever shine.

The local candle lighting will be part of a special service held at 3:00 PM at Redeemer Lutheran Church, 5120 Harrison Road, Fredericksburg, VA 22408 and will feature special music, readings, and lighting candles saying our children, grandchildren, and sibling names who have died. Annually tens of thousands of families, united in loss, light candles for one hour during the Worldwide Candle Lighting, held the second Sunday in December. Candles are first lit at 7 p.m., local time, just west of the International Date Line. As candles burn down in one time zone, they are lit in the