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The green leaves around the advent wreath symbolize everlasting life and growth. They are often made of pine, holly, or other evergreen materials to represent hope and renewal during the Advent season leading up to Christmas.
The Advent Wreath is put up on the first Sunday of Advent.
The Advent wreath has a lot of symbolism. The circle representing God, with no beginning and no end, the evergreen leaves representing eternal life, even the prickliness of the leaves is meant to remind us of the crown of thorns Christ wore when he was crucified.
"Have you ordered your advent wreath yet?"
Each candle on an Advent wreath represents one of the Sundays of Advent. A candle is lighted at the beginning of Mass on that Sunday. An Advent wreath in the home is lite for whatever reason that person has an Advent wreath. They are not an official liturgical thing.
It means that someone is trying to get inventive in decorating his Advent wreath.
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The Christmas wreath symbol is of advent it represents the time of advent taking place
the candles meanwaiting,expectationpreparation
The first advent candle to be lit in the traditional advent wreath ceremony is the purple candle, symbolizing hope.
The Advent Wreath was originally a Lutheran tradition which marks the four weeks of Advent. Made of evergreen branches layed horizontally, is had four candles representing the weeks. We use the Advent Wreath today but it is refered to as a Christmas wreath.
The white candle in the center of the wreath is the 5th candle - that is lit on Christmas or Christmas eve at Mass.Roman Catholic AnswerTechnically the Advent wreath doesn't have a fifth candle. A fifth candle is making into something other than an Advent wreath. Advent has four weeks, and there is a candle for each week. The Advent wreath should be taken down before the Christmas midnight Mass begins. I think the "fifth candle" is some modern invention that makes no sense.