A new candle is lit every Sunday before Christmas ... Typically, three of the four Advent candles are purple—the first, second and fourth ones. The first candle, or "Prophet's Candle ...

The three purple candles will be lit on the first, second and fourth Sunday of Advent. The pink candle will be lit on the third Sunday of Advent, known as Gaudete Sunday. Gaudete means ‘to ...

Advent begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas each year ... coming into the world and anticipation of his second coming. A fifth white candle is sometimes placed and lit in the middle ...

The oldest document in which we find the length and exercises of Advent mentioned with anything like clearness, is a passage in the second book ... was called the first Sunday, and so on with ...

Advent is four weeks long and marks the beginning of the Christian year. The first Sunday of Advent is always ... when Christians think about the second coming of Christ and what they need to ...