White Candle - Advent Wreath Question?

[musicmantg11]

I have noticed that some parishes have one white candle in the middle of their Advent wreath during Advent. I have heard this candle is light only on Christmas… is this true? If so, at Masses on Christmas, if there are three Masses (Vigil (Christmas Eve), Midnight, & Morning), is this candle burned with the other four candles (3 purples, 1 rose) at all three Masses. When is the wreath taken down?

Please give me all the information you know on this subject!

Thanks!

Have a Blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year!

 

[benedictgal]

I have noticed that some parishes have one white candle in the middle of their Advent wreath during Advent. I have heard this candle is light only on Christmas… is this true? If so, at Masses on Christmas, if there are three Masses (Vigil (Christmas Eve), Midnight, & Morning), is this candle burned with the other four candles (3 purples, 1 rose) at all three Masses. When is the wreath taken down?

Please give me all the information you know on this subject!

Thanks!

Have a Blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year!

The Candle is called, in some areas, the Christmas Candle. It symbolizes that Light of Christ that has entered the world. It is logical since the Advent Wreath pretty much leads us to the great light of Christmas. In some parishes that have the fifth candle, the wreath is not taken down until after the Christmas season.

 

[puzzleannie]

the white candle is the Christ candle and is lit the first Mass on Christmas eve, with all the other candles. In some places, the wreath remains in place all during the Christmas season with all the candles lit, in others, the colored candles are now replaced with white ones and all are lit during the Christmas season.

 

[Joannm]

We will be taking out Advent wreath down early tomorrow morning before we begin decorating the sanctuary. The greens are really dried out and it looks pretty pathetic.

 

[michael_quinlan]

The wreath is a symbol of the fact that God has no beginning and no end. It could actually stay up all year, but culturally we set it aside after Epiphany.