Family Paschal Candle

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Is it appropriate to have a Paschal Candle at the family dinner table? If it’s O.K. where would be a good place to purchase a reasonably priced candle or what are the specifics for making one? How about a prayer that can be used nightly with the candle?

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since it is about 6 feet tall you probably don’t want one on your dinner table. why not get a good quality white or cream wax pillar candle and mark it with the chi rho, year and “nails” of incense. find a picture in a religious goods catalog for a guide. you can buy colored wax sheets to cut into the proper shape and melt using a butane lighter so they stick. or if you just use stickers, and put them low enough so they don’t burn, you can get the same effect. never burn a candle that is not on a glass or metal dish or holder. light it only for prayer before meals, never leave it burning.
One of the psalms or short readings from LOTH of the day, responsorial psalm of the day’s Mass, would be good prayer choices.
 
Six feet tall, huh? We’ll have to put it on the table in the ballroom and make sure it’s far enough away from the heirloom antique tapestries.😃

Thanks for the info. puzzleannie.👍
 
You can go on the Domestic Church website.You can Google it and when on the site, click on Fridge Art. They give step by step directions on how to make a Paschal Candle for home. I think they even talk about how you can bring home the flame from the Easter Candle in church.

By the way, I hesitate to put a link because some person on another thread said it was wrong to link sites.
 
Quaere_Verum said:
Is it appropriate to have a Paschal Candle at the family dinner table? If it’s O.K. where would be a good place to purchase a reasonably priced candle or what are the specifics for making one? How about a prayer that can be used nightly with the candle?

Thanks!
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We use an ordinary pillar candle–not decorated. During Advent it sits in the middle of the advent wreath as the “Christ candle”. During Lent we replace it with a single purple taper candle (but I recently say a Lenten candle wreath and hope to get one for next year). Basically it is just a way to remind us of our Lord. And it’s nice to have a candle lit dinner as a family!
 
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