The reason for the season.....

Two Advent services today - one very informal, the other very traditional at St Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square. Both very good and spoke of promise and expectancy.

I couldn't get high enough above this beautiful sculpture outside the church so this picture doesn't give a true image. I hope this extract helps

Christ Child, also known as In the Beginning or the Millennium Sculpture,[1] is an outdoor sculpture by Michael "Mike" Chapman, located under the portico of St Martins-in-the-Fields at Trafalgar Square in London, United Kingdom. The opening text from the Gospel of John is inscribed around the sculpture: "In the beginning was the word and the word became flesh and lived among us".[1]Chapman has said of the sculpture: "For the millennium I was commissioned to produce a sculpture to be placed in Trafalgar square, during Christmas prior to the celebrations. It seemed to me that a tiny life-size baby carved from stone in such an enormous environment would be the best way to remind us all of just whose birthday we were celebrating."
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