May your blessing be upon all who gather around this tree, all who keep the Christmas festival by its lights. We wait for the coming of the Christ, the days of everlasting justice and of peace.

All. Amen. (Sprinkles tree with holy water.) Then the family can sing a song, an Advent carol, if it knows one, then it is time to bless the crib and eat Christmas Eve supper.

Nonetheless, the small-scale nature of the show—what one would charitably describe as its intimacy—was part of its DNA: like the barren, dying Christmas tree picked out by Charlie Brown ...

After the tree blessing and countdown the Rotary tree ... Our way of lighting up Chichester with a great Christmas Tree and many torches at the heart of Chichester. This will bring together ...