First time here, help please re black candles

  • Thread starter Thread starter Ellesmum
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
E

Ellesmum

Guest
This may sound like an odd question, so please bare with me. I love Yankee candles, not in a religious sense, just to decorate and scent my home. However, the mixed Bags come with black candles and I’m uneasy about them. I’m also new to the Catholic Faith, I know we should avoid superstition etc. But black doesn’t seem very good as a candle Please can someone help me. Are there candle colours best avoided, or does it not matter ? Thanks for your help.
 
I don’t think they seem very cheerful, but I don’t see how they would be a problem in a religious way.
They’re probably aimed at men and maybe they didn’t sell very well 🤣
 
Yes as others have stated do not fret about this.
Colors are not any indication of religious or spiritual intention, of course it is probably not a cheerful color and as long as you used for the aroma they produce burning you are ok.
I will give you an example, the last time I checked, incense is black in color and we burn it in the church when we want to signify our prayers that we elevate to GOD. Nothing to it, the aroma is the important thing there, as well as the smoke that raises.
Have a blessed Sunday.
Peace!
 
Ellesmum said:
Are there candle colours best avoided, or does it not matter ?
Click to expand...
There is absolutely nothing wrong with the color black.

Black candle, black shirt, black car, black cat, black paint, black pants, etc.

Nothing at all wrong with any of these.
 
Ellesmum said:
This may sound like an odd question, so please bare with me. I love Yankee candles, not in a religious sense, just to decorate and scent my home. However, the mixed Bags come with black candles and I’m uneasy about them. I’m also new to the Catholic Faith, I know we should avoid superstition etc. But black doesn’t seem very good as a candle Please can someone help me. Are there candle colours best avoided, or does it not matter ? Thanks for your help.
Click to expand...
Violet, white, and black vestments are worn at funeral services and at other Offices and Masses for the Dead in the dioceses of the United States of America. So it seems that you could use a black candle symbolic of your prayers for those in Purgatory.
 
Last edited:
There’s nothing wrong with a black candle as long as you don’t use it for some immoral purpose, such as offering it to demons.

A black candle is simply a candle that has a dark black color. There is nothing inherently wrong, bad, or evil about the color black. It can signify a wide variety of things from mourning to Halloween to the fact that its buyer just happens to like black, or is trying to achieve a decorating effect with certain candle colors.

We have loads of “Black Madonnas”.
 
Last edited:
i think black candles can be nice to emphasis the lit candle more at night
 
I agree with the others.

Please try not to worry. 🙂

As someone else who has bought their brand of candles, I’m thinking that these types of candles may have been left over from their Autumn or Halloween selections so they ended up in the mixed bag.

Sometimes you’ll see overstock items and things like that at their outlet store, too.

These will be candles from their previous seasons so that they can make room for new items.
 
Last edited:
LumineDiei said:
I guarantee the scent is going to be something that smells like vetiver or musk- like an imitation of high end men’s cologne. Probably has a name that fits the color and scent. No worries! And no worrying about red ones being associated with the devil. Red candles should always smell like cinnamon candy! Fruit scents are just wrong 😉
Click to expand...
Red candles are used as Christmas decoration all of the time, along with white ones. And green ones. The colors are for decor, and scent, and the only time I can think of that colors of candles mean anything are Advent candles. They do have religious significance.

Other than that, your personal aesthetic decorating tastes and olfactory sense are yours to enjoy, and colors that go along with that.

Don’t worry about this. If you don’t like the black candles, don’t use them.
 
I mean, this is what’s currently sitting in my window:
(Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
 
Ellesmum said:
However, the mixed Bags come with black candles
Click to expand...
If you don’t like the particular colour then contact the business that you brought them from and ask if they would replace them of another colour.

On the next purchase ask that that particular colour is not added to your purchase. I would say that the colour is difficult to sell and a mixed bag is the only way to get rid of stock.
 
Last edited:
27lw said:
They’re probably aimed at men and maybe they didn’t sell very well 🤣
Click to expand...
Of course, everyone knows Midsummer’s Night is the manliest of all scents.

(Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top