Lighting The Advent Candles Ceremony

The wreath as a circle expresses god s eternity.

Lighting the advent candles ceremony.

Each week during advent a new candle is lit until all the candles burn on christmas or christmas eve. The four candles lit during advent are traditionally blue or purple. The evergreen symbolizes god s unchangeableness. This year as we prepare for christmas we will also have the lighting an advent wreath.

Many churches and families light advent candles to mark the progression toward the birth of christ. We will light a candle each week for the next four sundays to prepare our hearts for christmas. This is written for that tradition using scriptures for the day from the revised common lectionary. Come o christ the light.

The season of advent has been set aside as a time of preparation since the 6th century. Lighting the advent wreath in the tradition of hope peace joy and love many churches are used to lighting candles of hope peace joy and love. The tradition reaches back to pre christian northern europeans. The following text then is one way of approaching the advent candle lighting ceremony in worship each week.

Lighting the advent wreath advent candles advent comes from the latin word adventus meaning coming advent begins the church year starting four sundays before christmas. Advent is also a time for preparing for christ s second. In places where the tradition is to use families to light the advent wreath it is advised that. The meaning of the advent wreath ceremony.

The advent wreath is a circle of greenery with three purple candles and one pink candle on the perimeter and one white christ candle in the center.