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2. What Is the Meaning Behind Advent Wreaths and Candles ... - AOL

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   The four points of Advent are hope, peace, joy and love. In the weeks leading up to Christmas, a candle representing one of these themes is lit to reflect the coming of Jesus Christ.

3. ADVENT 2024: Four ways to discover peace through the ... - AOL

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   As we light the candles of Advent—hope, peace, joy, and love—may we allow their flickering flames to illuminate the path to peace. May we embrace the waiting, the reflecting, and the hoping.

4. Faith: This Advent, embrace to the joy of waiting - AOL

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   The annual liturgical calendar reminds us of the cycle of seasons— Advent, Christmas, Easter, Lent, and Ordinary time. This year, 2024, Advent begins on De. 1 and ends Dec. 24.

5. Advent wreath - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 December 2024. Symbol of Advent period For the use of a single candle marked with the days of Advent, see Advent candle. Advent wreath with a Christ candle in the center The Advent wreath, or Advent crown, is a Christian tradition that symbolizes the passage of the four weeks of Advent in the ...

6. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel - Wikipedia

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   The translation published by Henry Sloane Coffin in 1916 – which included only the "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" verse by Neale and Coffin's two "new" verses – gained the broadest acceptance, with occasional modifications. [11] A full seven-verse English version officially appeared for the first time in 1940, in the Hymnal of the Episcopal Church.

7. Gaudete Sunday - Wikipedia

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   Joy, however, is itself not a virtue, but is an effect of the virtue of charity ("love"), which is full if its object is eternal and the greatest, i.e. God. Joy admits no sorrow for it is not an act of the sensitive faculties, e.g. enjoying food is a natural joy for Thomas, but supernatural joy which is spoken of on Gaudete Sunday and in the ...

8. Hanging of the greens - Wikipedia

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   Items such as the Chrismon/Christmas tree and Advent wreath are placed in the church during the hanging of the greens ceremony. The hanging of the greens is a Western Christian ceremony in which many congregations and people adorn their churches, as well as other buildings (such as a YWCA or university), with Advent and Christmas decorations.

9. 25 Christmas Prayers and Blessings To Bring Joy to the World

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   love and gratitude for your infinite goodness. Join them all together in your love. And give us your heavenly peace. Amen." — Pope John XXIII. Related: Religious Christmas Songs. 6. "In our ...