The entire family is invited to enjoy a Lantern Parade and Lightness Ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 15.

The free event, sponsored by the Abilene Interfaith Council, will be held 4:30-6 p.m. at Cassy’s store, 141 Ruby St. Guests can park on Ruby Street and come through Cassy’s to the back meeting room. Or they can park on Morris Street, across from Szechuan restaurant, and enter through the back gate. 

Projects for children and for adults are planned. Children can make lanterns and then carry them in a parade on the grounds as darkness falls. Susanna Lubanga, president of the Interfaith Council, will give a short talk on Saint Martin and the significance of the lantern parade in German culture. Lubanga grew up in Germany as the daughter of missionaries. 

Adults will have a “bowl burning and releasing” ceremony.  Guests will write the things they would like to release from their minds and spirits on pieces of paper that will be burned at sundown. “Release the past.  Make space for new beginnings.”