Candle Category: Support

We light this candle for Ghana Hylton’s Aunt Clementine Young and Uncle Edward Whiteurs. We hold Ghana in our respect as she mourns these dear ones. 

Shannon Gattens lights this candle for support for Amy Hains who holds vigil for her father in Maryland as his health continues to decline. Amy, may you feel our love as your father is gifted by your own love. 

Joel Naftelberg and Beth Smith light this candle for Bobby Byrnes, Joel’s childhood friend who has been in and out of the hospital with a serious cardiac ailment. Please hold Bobby in your prayers as he fights for his life.

Rev. Dr. Jan Carlsson-Bull lights this candle for a dear long time friend,  Lynda Shannon Bluestein.  Lynda is amid metastatic ovarian cancer and is “recovering” from surgery.  Lynda is a former President of our Unitarian Universalist region and past chair and member of the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly Planning Committee as well as an activist...

We lit a candle in gratitude that many of our regular guests at our MESH (Montclair Emergency Services for Hope) received the single shot vaccine for Covid-19 this past Monday at the Salvation Army Citadel. May they be well. 

We lit a candle for the victims of the mass shooting at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado. Once again we are filled with anger and grief as the easy access to weapons of mass murder continues to terrorize our nation. With this candle we pray we will not become accustomed to this mayhem but...