The blessing of an Advent Wreath takes place on the First Sunday of Advent or on the evening before the First Sunday of Advent. When the blessing of the Advent Wreath is celebrated in the home ...

This week of Advent, you are invited to “wind up” (or shake up) music boxes and a snow globe from the Marian Library's collections. Listen peacefully to the familiar notes of “Silent Night,” “Away in ...

The Advent wreath is made of four candles and a circle of branches. Before the first candle is lighted, the household gathers for this blessing. In the short days and long nights of Advent ...

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Advent begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas ... and anticipation of his second coming. A fifth white candle is sometimes placed and lit in the middle of the wreath on Christmas Day to ...