What do the 4 candles in Advent represent? The four points or themes of Advent — each represented by a candle on the Advent wreath — are generally understood as hope, peace, joy and love.

Advent 2024 starts on Sunday. Dec. 1. Here's what Christians do during Advent, how long it lasts and how it's different from Christmas.

Advent, which begins today, starts with the anticipation of Christ’s Second Coming, but then changes to focus on Jesus’ birth.

Traditionally, the Advent wreath with its four candles and sometimes a central fifth, the Christ candle, is lit on Christmas Eve.

Jeff King, president of International Christian Concern, says that during this year's Advent season, "Many Christians around the world will be lighting candles beginning the countdown to Christmas.

Salisbury Cathedral celebrates the beginning of Advent with a candle-lit service and procession, "From Darkness to Light" in Salisbury, Britain, November 30, 2018.

This week, as we enter the sacred Advent season, the four weeks leading up to the birth of Christ, many churches, sadly, remain closed.

“Advent is all about desire,” an elderly Jesuit in our community used to say every year as November drew to a close. And whenever he said it, I would say, “Huh?” But gradually it dawned on ...

Usually associated with churches, Advent also is celebrated by individual families who light the traditional four candles symbolizing hope, peace, joy and love and the bigger Christ candle while ...

We have decided to suspend the Advent Prayer Series indefinitely. However, this is an exciting time as we are currently working on new resources and initiatives that are responsive to our current ...

Peter & Paul Jesuit Church, in downtown Detroit. He knew of our ministry to the homeless, a ministry that has spanned over two and a half decades.