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The Story of the Candy Cane: Unwrapping Christmas Traditions · HAVE FAITH LET IT BEGIN®

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  Music.
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  Merry Christmas. Good morning, everyone, and Merry Christmas Eve.
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  Well, it's our annual tradition, but I don't want to take all the credit for
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  the introduction today because, as promised,
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  I have a very special guest, someone who's taking the time out of the busy schedule
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  to do a formal introduction for the first time on our show.
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  So without further ado, the man himself, Santa Claus.
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  Merry Christmas to all of the Have Faith family.
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  Welcome to the annual Christmas tradition, The Story of the Candy Cane.
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  Here is your host, Angel Santana.
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  Have Faith? Let it begin. Merry Christmas Eve, everyone, and welcome to The Story of the Candy Cane.
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  We'd just like to wish all of you
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  a season's greetings a happy
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  holidays and a merry christmas and now
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  i ask that all of you make sure that you hold in your hands right at this very
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  moment a candy cane i hope all of you are prepared and now without further ado
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  we continue with our half-faith let it begin tradition the story of the candy cane.
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  The candy cane was first introduced in the late 1880s by a candy maker in Indiana.
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  He wanted to make a candy that would be a witness during the holiday season.
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  He began with a stick of pure white to show the virgin birth and the sinless nature of Jesus Christ.
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  The hardness of the candy cane
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  was to represent Jesus as
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  the solid rock The foundation of
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  the church and the firmness of the promise of God The white stripes on the candy
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  cane represents the purity of Christ The small red stripes symbolizes the scourging
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  of Jesus before he was hung on the cross,
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  The large red stripes show the blood that Jesus shed for each of us on the cross.
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  The shape of the candy cane represents the shepherd's staff,
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  because Jesus is the Good.
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  If you flip the candy cane around, hold it up, you will notice that the candy
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  cane is the letter J, which is the first letter of Jesus.
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  Have a Merry Christmas and always remember the reason for the season and the candy cane.
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  Have faith. Let it begin. Merry Christmas.
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  Music.