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Show Advent Sundays The custom of using a ure.r.h to cpkh the approach ot Chnsini.is. to keep in mind its meaning, is giovving Ihe wreath conum tour c.ind!e. one being lit on the first Sunday Sun-day of Advent (Nov. 30 this ye.it i. two the next Sund.iv . three the next and four the Sunday before Chns: mas. OCR CHI RCHES leach that one should ptep.ue tor the advent of the Savior on the 25th: in some there are elaborate elabo-rate rituals. Hut there is doubt when the practice began. Aside fiom prescribed rituals, the custom of using a wreath wuh lour candles has been adopted by moie and moie Americans, of all t.uihs. just as Santa Claus comes into almost every home. |