Visit each week during the season of Advent as we light a new candle and share a new gift. The Marian Library wishes you hope, peace, joy and love throughout the season and the new year to come. Two ...

Your church may light Advent candles each week symbolizing anticipation, followed by a meaningful reading or prayer. Each candle represents something different — hope, love, joy, and peace.

The Advent wreath is made of four candles and a circle of branches. Before the first candle is lighted, the household gathers for this blessing. In the short days and long nights of Advent ...

Four weeks of Advent leading up to Christ Incarnate’s entry into the world. Four weeks, each symbolized with a lighted candle, purple ... Four weeks, the first centered on hope, the second on peace, ...