Is this a real Advent song?

[rainbowsmiles]

when I was young I attended a Catholic school and we learned a song to sing each night during advent. It’s words were:

We light our Advent candle
And say our Advent prayer
The little twinkling candles say that
Christmas is near.

When Jesus comes to our house
He’ll see them burning bright.
We’ll say “O welcome Jesus dear
This glad Christmas night”.

Can’t seem to find a verification of this song but both my mom and I remember it…did we just dream it up?

 

[Fr.Vincent_Serpa]

HI

This could be it:

1 We light the Advent candles
against the winter night,
to welcome our Lord Jesus
who is the world’s True Light,
to welcome our Lord Jesus
who is the world’s True Light.

2 The first one will remind us
that Christ will soon return.
We light it in the darkness
and watch it gleam and burn,
We light it in the darkness
and watch it gleam and burn.

3 We light the second candle,
and hear God’s holy Word,
it tells us, cling to Jesus,
prepare to meet your Lord,
it tells us, cling to Jesus,
prepare to meet your Lord!

4 Three candles now are gleaming
and show us the true way,
rejoice, the Baptist cries out,
your Lord has come today,
rejoice, the Baptist cries out,
your Lord has come today!

5 Four candles burning brightly
announce that Christ has come,
prepare, my heart, believe it,
and give the Christ child room,
prepare, my heart, believe it,
and give the Christ child room.

See: hymnary.org/hymn/WAR2003/175

Fr. Vincent Serpa, O.P.