{"id":3825,"date":"2018-12-13T16:57:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T21:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/?p=3825"},"modified":"2018-12-20T17:40:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T22:40:12","slug":"what-does-santa-lucia-mean-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/?p=3825","title":{"rendered":"What Does Santa Lucia Mean to You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in a church with Swedish roots, I learned early on that December 13 is Lucia Day. Swedish Americans have great traditions at Christmas. One of these is celebrating <a href=\"https:\/\/sweden.se\/culture-traditions\/lucia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Lucia<\/a>. This year we got to experience Lucia at our church in MI!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3826\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3826\" style=\"width: 336px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/?attachment_id=3826\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3826\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3826\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2018\/12\/20181207_190014-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2018\/12\/20181207_190014-2.jpg 336w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2018\/12\/20181207_190014-2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beautiful table decorations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3827\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3827\" style=\"width: 448px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/?attachment_id=3827\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3827\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3827\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2018\/12\/20181207_192756-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2018\/12\/20181207_192756-small.jpg 448w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2018\/12\/20181207_192756-small-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smorgasbord dinner with tons of Swedish food<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A lovely smorgasbord dinner was followed by a program of music, Scripture, and of course, Lucia and her court.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3828\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3828\" style=\"width: 447px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/?attachment_id=3828\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3828\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3828\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2018\/12\/Lucia-girls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2018\/12\/Lucia-girls.jpg 960w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2018\/12\/Lucia-girls-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2018\/12\/Lucia-girls-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2018\/12\/Lucia-girls-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2018\/12\/Lucia-girls-644x644.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lucia and her court<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Going to Santa Lucia in a Swedish Covenant church is way different from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/?p=1050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;going to Santa Lucia&#8221; in Yaounde<\/a>, Cameroon. 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