The advent wreath is circular becasue it means love and wholeness of god
To create an advent wreath, start with a circular wreath base and place four candles evenly around it. Light one candle each Sunday leading up to Christmas. Decorate the wreath with greenery and other symbols of the season.
The Advent Wreath is put up on the first Sunday of Advent.
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Advent candles are typically lit in a clockwise manner. Each candle represents a week of Advent, and the candles are usually arranged in a circular wreath. Starting from the first Sunday of Advent, the candles are lit one by one in order, moving clockwise around the wreath.
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
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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.