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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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Apollo was deeply in love with a mountain nymph named Daphne, who rejected his advances and fled from him. To escape him forever, she was turned into a laurel tree, which Apollo then made sacred, and he made a wreath from the leaves to console himself.
An advent wreath normally contains four candles, three violet for penance, and one rose candle for joy, that is for the third Sunday of Advent.
There are four candles on the outside of the Advent wreath. There is one pink candle and three purple candles.
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The candles on the Advent wreath represent the coming of the light of Christ. The three purple candles represent hope, love, and peace.
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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.
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.
Four, they represent the four Sundays of Advent.
All candles are sacramentals used in the Church's liturgy. The candles particular to Advent would be the candles on the Advent wreath, and these stand for the four Sundays in Advent, which is focused on penance and preparation for the coming of the Lord, both in His Nativity and in His Second Coming.
Four candles, three purple, one pink.