The Legend of the Candy Cane

Many years ago, a candy maker wanted
to make a candy at Christmas
time that would serve as a witness
to his Christian faith. He wanted
to incorporate several symbols for the birth, ministry
and death of Jesus. He began with a stick
of pure white hard candy; white to symbolize the
Virgin birth and the sinless nature of Jesus; hard
to symbolize the solid rock, the foundation of the
Church; firmness to represent the promise of God.
The candy maker made the candy in the form of
a “J” to represent the name of Jesus, who came to
earth as our Savior. He thought it could also represent
the staff of the Good Shepherd, with which
he reached down into the ditches of the world to
lift out the fallen lambs who, like all sheep, have
gone astray.

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