{"id":111,"date":"2013-05-23T15:17:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T15:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/user44356.vs.easily.co.uk\/?page_id=111"},"modified":"2018-09-10T10:09:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T09:09:58","slug":"advent-star","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/?page_id=111","title":{"rendered":"Advent Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fulneck.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Advent-Star.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-167\" src=\"http:\/\/fulneck.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Advent-Star.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Visitors to Fulneck at Christmas time will not fail to notice the huge\u00a0white star hanging from the Church bell tower and other stars visible in cottage windows. In the Church there is\u00a0another huge star hanging over the Communion table.\u00a0These Christmas stars are a great tradition\u00a0of the Moravian Church. Their origin was in the 1830\u2019s in the Boarding School in Niesky, near Herrnhut in eastern Germany. Paper stars were made as a lesson in geometry and then became a craft activity\u00a0 for the children boarding in the school.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years this tradition of hand made paper stars has became a popular Advent and Christmas symbol and decoration in Moravian Churches in Germany. This lovely tradition then spread to other Moravian Churches across the world.<\/p>\n<p>Many congregations and families in Eastern Germany still make their own stars\u00a0from paper and the biggest paper star &#8211; over 6&#8242; tall &#8211; hangs at Christmas in Niesky Moravian\u00a0Church. The world\u2019s largest Moravian star is 31&#8242; tall and is in Winston Salem, North Carolina, a town that originated as a Moravian settlement.<\/p>\n<p>Moravian stars are now made in a workshop in Herrnhut connected to the Moravian Church\u00a0and their web address is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.herrnhut-stars.com\/\"><strong>www.herrnhut-stars.com<\/strong><\/a>. Moravian Church House in London also holds a stock of these stars.<\/p>\n<p>The stars are put up in Moravian Churches and homes on Advent Sunday and taken\u00a0down at Epiphany.<\/p>\n<p>The stars remind us of God the creator who made the stars; of God\u2019s\u00a0promise to Abraham that his descendants would\u00a0be more numerous than the stars; and, of\u00a0course, of the star that led the wise men to worship the infant Jesus in\u00a0Bethlehem. Finally the Advent star always points to Jesus, who said, &#8220;I am the bright and Morning Star.&#8221; It is the\u00a0star of promise, the star of fulfilment, and\u00a0the star of hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors to Fulneck at Christmas time will not fail to notice the huge\u00a0white star hanging from the Church bell tower and other stars visible in cottage windows. In the Church there is\u00a0another huge star hanging over the Communion table.\u00a0These Christmas stars are a great tradition\u00a0of the Moravian Church. Their origin was in the 1830\u2019s in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/?page_id=111\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advent Star<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":30,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-111","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823,"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111\/revisions\/1823"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}