Lighting The Advent Candles Ceremony

The four candles lit during advent are traditionally blue or purple.

Lighting the advent candles ceremony.

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. Come o christ the light. 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. 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.

Liturgy and song for lighting advent candles for use on the four sundays of advent and christmas eve or christmas day one of the fondest advent traditions for both congregations and families is the lighting of advent candles. Many churches and families light advent candles to mark the progression toward the birth of christ. Each week during advent a new candle is lit until all the candles burn on christmas or christmas eve. The meaning of the advent wreath ceremony.

The wreath as a circle expresses god s eternity. We will light a candle each week for the next four sundays to prepare our hearts for christmas. The season of advent has been set aside as a time of preparation since the 6th century. This year as we prepare for christmas we will also have the lighting an advent wreath.

Advent includes four sundays before christmas. The tradition reaches back to pre christian northern europeans. The final candle is lit either on christmas or christmas eve and is known. This is written for that tradition using scriptures for the day from the revised common lectionary.

The following text then is one way of approaching the advent candle lighting ceremony in worship each week.