WHIPPANY, N.J. – The Bethlehem Peace Light was shared during a ceremony at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in Whippany, N.J., on Saturday, December 7.
Participating were members of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization, including senior members of the “Ti, Shcho Hrebli Rvut” sorority who organized and conducted the ceremony, members of the area’s scout organizations, including Latvian and Polish scouts, as well as parishioners.
The Peace Light arrived in the United States a day earlier, landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, where a special ceremony was held at Our Lady of the Skies Chapel. The light came from Vienna, brought there by Austrian scouts who light a lantern from the everlasting flame that burns in Bethlehem. Scouts worldwide, including Plast members in Ukraine, participate in distributing the light.