{"id":7059,"date":"2017-11-17T19:26:36","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T19:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/11\/17\/chaplains-office-presents-moravian-love-feast-dec-3\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:59:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:59:36","slug":"chaplains-office-presents-moravian-love-feast-dec-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/chaplains-office-presents-moravian-love-feast-dec-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplain&#8217;s Office presents Moravian Love Feast Dec. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University will host its annual Moravian Christmas Love Feast service Sunday, Dec. 3 at 5 p.m. in Daniel Memorial Chapel on campus.<\/p>\n<p>The event is free and open to the public, and is presented by Furman\u2019s Office of the Chaplains.<\/p>\n<p>Based on traditions originating in the early Apostolic church, then later in the Moravian church, the Christmas Love Feast is a meaningful way to celebrate the coming of the Christ child.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35037\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35037\" class=\"wp-image-35037 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/Daniel-Chapel-candles-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"299\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 500px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 500\/299;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-35037\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illuminated by candlelight and decorated with red poinsettias, Daniel Chapel is the setting for the Love Feast service.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The service includes the serving of Moravian buns and coffee, and the lighting of beeswax candles. The sanctuary will be illuminated by pew candle staffs and decorated with red poinsettias.<\/p>\n<p>Gail Schoonmaker, coordinator of music for the chapel, has invited musicians from the Furman community to participate in the service including Elliott Cihlar, violinist; Savannah York, violist; and Jamisen Collier, organist. These musicians will accompany Furman\u2019s acclaimed Chancel Choir in songs of the season.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact the Furman Office of the Chaplains at 864-294-2133.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University will host its annual Moravian Christmas Love Feast service Sunday, Dec. 3 at 5 p.m. in Daniel Memorial Chapel on campus. The event is free and open to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}