The Compassionate Friends Bridgeport/Stratford Chapter will be having a Memorial Ceremony to honor the children who have left us too soon. It will be held December 10, 2023 in the Gazebo at Paradise Green in Stratford.
It includes a slide presentation of the children’s photos, reading of children’s names, music and candle lighting.
If you plan to participate in this event, you must email your child’s photo along with your RSVP no later than December 1, 2023. For those that have previously submitted photos, you need not submit again.
Photo must be in JPEG format and emailed in the original size.
In you are unable to send a picture electronically, please send a hard copy via USPS to:
The Compassionate Friends
34 Cedar Hill Rd
Easton, CT 06612
Email your RSVP and photo to: contact@tcf-bridgeport.org
Please include your child’s name in the email.
If you have any questions regarding the event, please call (475) 882-9695
or email:contact@tcf-bridgeport.org
Candles will be lit at 7:00pm to join the Worldwide Candle Lighting.
The Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting. Now believed to be the largest mass candle lighting on the globe, the 27th 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.
The Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting on the 2nd Sunday in December unites family and friends around the globe in lighting candles to honor the memories of the sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, and grandchildren who left too soon. As candles are lit on December 10th, 2023 at 7:00 pm local time, hundreds of thousands of persons commemorate and honor the memory of all children gone too soon.
The Compassionate Friend’s 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. 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 Compassionate Friends and allied organizations are joined by local bereavement groups, churches, funeral homes, hospitals, hospices, children’s gardens, schools, cemeteries, and community centers. Services have ranged in size from just a few people to nearly a thousand.
6:45 –-Welcome
6:55– Opening reading
7:00 pm – 7:15 Lighting of the Candles and Reading of the Names.
Songs Performed by Julie & Rob – Tonight I Hold This Candle, If I Could Be There, Get Me Through December
7:15 – End of ceremony
Things you need to know if you are planning to attend:
- Please rsvp by December 1st to contact@tcf-bridgeport.org
- The ceremony is OUTSIDE. Dress accordingly.
- If you would like your loved one(s) to be included in the reading of the names please submit the names to contact@tcf-bridgeport.org
- If using UPSP please mail to: The Compassionate Friends, 34 Cedar Hill Rd, Easton, CT 06612