In the Catholic Church (The Church Christ Insititued) we use 3 purple and 1 pink candle, pink being the 3rd candle to be lit.
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In most Christian Churches, that celebrate advent they use candles the color of red.
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Advent is the season that marks the beginning of the Christian Church Year. The term comes from the Latin word adventus, which means coming or arrival. The season is thus one of preparation for the celebration of the feast of the Nativity of Jesus Christ on Christmas Day.
The majority of Christian Churches, that celebrate advent use candles the color of red along with their advent wreath.
There a four candles, three are purple, lit on 1st, 2nd, and 4th Sundays of advent; one is pink, lit on the 3rd Sunday of Advent as a sign of rejoicing. On Christmas a white candle is added in the center and the others extinguished as sign of Jesus presence.
The colors of the advent wreath candles are purple and pink.
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There are four candles on the outside of the Advent wreath. There is one pink candle and three purple candles.
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Four, they represent the four Sundays of Advent.
There is no settled tradition regarding the Advent Wreath. Roman Catholics prefer 3 purple and 1 rose (for the Joyful third Sunday). Many protestants have begun to use blue candles, blue being the color of hope. Perhaps the key factor for choosing colors is what do you want the Advent Wreath to symbolize- hope, preparation, penitence?
The first candle is lit on the first Sunday of Advent. Each succeeding Sunday an additional candle is lit until all four are lit on the forth Sunday of Advent.
to count: four Sundays before Christmas!On a Advent wreath are four candles, for each Sunday one. The first Sunday is the beginning of the churchyear. There is no fix date, because of the shifting of the weekdays in the calendar.
Three purple candles.
The Advent Wreath is displayed only for the four weeks preceding Christmas. Some people leave the Wreath up until Christmas is finished, but typically you put it back in storage after the 4th Sunday of Advent.
The traditional Advent wreath has 4 candles, each representing 1000 years that the Jews awaited the birth of the Messiah for a total of 4000 years. Three candles are violet and one is rose colored, representing the half way mark of Advent. Some have added a fifth candle, the Christmas Candle, which is white.
There are 4 candles in all; the first three are purple and the last one is pink.
The traditional advent wreath has four candles, one for each Sunday in Advent, three purple and one pink. Some more modern traditions (commonly Lutherans) use advent wreaths with four blue candles. If they are all the same color, it doesn't matter what order you light them in, so I presume you are asking about the tradional pink/purple candles. The candle opposite the pink candle is lit first, on the first Sunday of Advent (or the vigil service on the Saturday night before). There's no real rule about going clockwise or counter clockwise, as far as I know, but the second Sunday means lighting the first candle as well as a second purple one. On the third Sunday the pink candle is lit along with the previous two purple ones. On the fourth Sunday all four candles are lit. Many congregations and families also use a white candle in the center to represent Christ; this is lit on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Advent occurs during late Fall and early Winter and, in many temperate areas of the world, evergreens are the only plants that are still green during those seasons.