While the third candle in the crown is lit, it can be sung.
The family gathers like every weekend in an atmosphere of seclusion with little light. It is advisable to place an image of the Virgin next to the crown, with a candle at her feet.
At the beginning of the family gathering to celebrate the third day of Advent, the first two candles of the novena are lit. Remember that the Advent wreath has 3 purple candles and a fourth pink candle.
With great care, one of the young children in the gathering can be commissioned to light the candles. This day the pink candle is lit.
One of the main indications according to believers, for this third Sunday of Advent, is that the first and second candles in the wreath must be lit before beginning the prayer. This will create a secluded, low-light environment in the home.
Among the members of the family, a special reader or a main monitor (guide) should be chosen, who can be the father or the mother, who leads the prayer that is presented below:
Ceremony of the Third Sunday of Advent
Everyone: In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Monitor: We are going to light the third candle in our crown. This is the Sunday of joy. The Lord is closer and closer to us and we must prepare ourselves worthily to receive him into our hearts. Let’s take a moment of silence to raise our prayers to the Lord.
Reader: A reading from the book of Isaiah 61: 1-2, 10-11 The spirit of the Lord Yahveh is upon me, because Yahveh has anointed me. He has sent me to announce the good news to the poor, to bind up broken hearts; to proclaim deliverance to captives, and liberty to inmates; to proclaim the Yahveh’s year of grace, the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn.
“With joy I will rejoice in Yahveh, my soul exults in my God, because he has clothed me with the robes of salvation, in a robe of justice he has wrapped me as the bridegroom puts on a diadem, as the bride adorns herself with dressings. Because, as a land makes plants germinate and as a garden produces its seed, so the Lord Yahveh makes justice and praise germinate in the presence of all nations ”.
Monitor: (With folded hands) We gather for a few moments in silence and bowing our heads we are going to ask the Lord to bless this Advent wreath.
Prayer: “In the darkness a light was kindled, in the desert a voice cried out. The good news is announced: the Lord is coming. Prepare your ways, for it is near. Adorn your soul as a bride adorns herself on her wedding day. The messenger is coming. John the Baptist is not the light, but the one who announces the light to us. When we light these three candles each one of us wants to be your torch so that you shine, call so that you warm. Come, Lord, to save us, wrap us in your light, warm us in your love ”.
An Our Father and a Hail Mary are said.
Final prayer: “Dear Mother of God, who lived with joy the nine months of your Advent carrying the Child God in your womb, help us with your prayer so that the joy that Jesus brings us is never erased from our hearts.”
Everyone: Amen.
The ceremony can be ended with a Christmas carol. (I)
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