This is our Advent wreath, lit today on the first Sunday of Advent. It has three purple candles and a rose-colored one. The colors follow the liturgy. The purple candles are lit on the 1st, 2nd and 4th Sundays of Advent. On the 3rd Sunday which is also called the Gaudete Sunday signifying the joy that we are nearing Christmas, the rose candle is lit.
I know of some wreaths that have a fifth candle, a white one that is lit on Christmas eve. But in my house, there is no time to have a gettogether as a family around the Advent wreath due to the last-minute preparations for the Midnight Mass and the Noche Buena. Hence, you won’t see a white candle here.
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