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Show Advent Sunday Customs The custom of using a table wreath to enjoy the approach of Christmas and keep in mind its meaning is growing. The wreath contains four candles, one being lit on the First Sunday Sun-day in Advent (Nov. 29 this year), two the next Sunday, three the next and four the Sunday before Christmas. MANY OF our churches teach that advent is the season one should prepare for the advent ad-vent of the Savior on the 25th; in some there are eleborate rituals. But there is doubt when the practice began. Aside from specifically prescribed pre-scribed rituals or specific beliefs, be-liefs, the custom of using a wreath with four candles has been adopted by more and more Americans of all faiths, just as Santa Claus comes into almost every home. IT' A GOOD custom, for the candles and wreath are reminders remin-ders of a happy time to come; and if an accepted custom in the home, lit at each of our successive suc-cessive Sunday dinner tables, they add a warmth, and perhaps a Christian atmosphere, atmos-phere, in our homes. |