[Magdalen] Punxsutawney Phil.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

The Cathedral in Houston, my current parish home, uses bee's wax candles for 
the *many* candelabras used on Sundays (even more for high holy days).... 
when they get to about 2/3rd their original height, they are removed, 
trimmed and bundled in groups of 4, tied with a ribbon, and 'sold' in the 
Cathedral book store for a very reasonable price.  They smell lovely and do 
not drip too much unless in a draft, then waaaaatch out. : )
Lynn

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From: "M J _Mike_ Logsdon" <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2018 12:56 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Punxsutawney Phil.

>>>>Many churches now use plastic candles filled with oil (including our 
>>>>church -- and I don't care for them).  Lots of churches also use 
>>>>paraffin, and I don't care for the smell. Nothing like the smell in a 
>>>>church of beeswax candles!<<<
>
> Once in the last Episcopal parish I was formally affiliated with, either 
> my toddler son, or my wife, or maybe even me (but I doubt it), got a hold 
> of one of those faux candles with oil and held it wrong, and all the oil 
> spilled out on the floor by the altar.
>
> As for beeswax, I believe I still have some beeswax candles from my days 
> of saying mass in my makeshift chapel/study in my apartment (now just 
> study).  I will say this:  they sure burn slower than common (parafin?) 
> candles.  A LOT slower.  When I was assistant to my bishop back in the day 
> (it's been a decade since I left all that behind, gosh), I was always 
> having to replace used up candles.  And they were NOT dripless.  Are 
> beeswax candles dripless?  I sure don't remember anything like a mess on 
> my altar.
>
> M J (Mike) Logsdon.
>
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