Words For Lighting Advent Candles
In this collection, we provide 20 unique variations of Advent candle lighting readings that you can use in church services, small group gatherings, or even at home with your family. As you light Advent candles, the following liturgy may enrich your holy preparation. Although it is designed to be used with the lectionary readings from year A, the themes may be used any year.
To help proclaim that God's new world is at hand, here are SALTs candle lighting litanies for personal, family-based, or congregational use during this special season. Each litany begins by telling the truth about a world that is all too barren of hope, peace, joy, and love. The days are getting shorter, the weather colder, and the nights longer.
Hope tells us that longer days are ahead, that new life will emerge, and that we need to hold on just a little longer. With hope we begin our journey toward the sun and the new life it brings. We light the candle of Hope.
Find Advent Wreath prayers and scripture to use at home, in a Sunday School or Christian school, or in any modest group, while all gathered around the Advent wreath. Discover meaningful Advent readings for candle lighting with reflective passages that illuminate the path to Christmas. Many churches and families light Advent candles to mark the progression toward the birth of Christ.
Each week during Advent a new candle is lit until all the candles burn on Christmas or Christmas Eve. The four candles lit during Advent are traditionally blue or purple. To help proclaim that Gods new world is at hand, here are SALTs candle lighting litanies for personal, family-based, or congregational use during this special season.
Each litany begins by telling the truth about a world that is all too barren of hope, peace, joy, and love. God of light, as we wait through the long winter nights for the birth of Christ, help us to keep watch. Help us to tend the tiny flame of hope.
Make us alert until your gift of joy arrives. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen.
Today, on this second Sunday of Advent, we light the Bethlehem Candle and think about the love that Christ demonstrated. His sacrificial love was evident as he took on human flesh and entered our world in humility.
