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Week 3: Advent Wreath Prayer for busy families
By The Catholic Spirit
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Advent, the season of joyful expectation before Christmas, started Nov. 27 this year. The Advent wreath, with a lit candle marking each week of the season, is a traditional symbol of the period.
The following prayer is the third in a four-part Advent Wreath Prayer series.
Here is a short do-it-yourself Advent Wreath Prayer for the third Sunday of Advent, Dec. 11. The weekly prayers take just a few minutes to deepen your family’s Advent observance.
Second Sunday of Advent
Step 1—Light the first two candles on the Advent Wreath again, and the third one—the one that is a lighter color, usually pink or white.
Step 2—(optional) Read Isaiah 61:1-2a, 10-11; 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24; John 1:6-8, 19-28
Step 3—Lighting the lighter-colored candle this week is a sign of the joy we all look forward to at Christmas. The prophet Isaiah for this third week of Advent recalls for us what that joy is like. Feeling God in our lives lifts our spirits. And what is it that will make even the poor happy and the hurting healed? Praise for God and justice for others. St. Paul reminds us to pray, to be holy and to not let anything quench our joyous spirit.
Step 4—Pray: Holy Spirit, guide me so that my life may be testimony of the wonders and the love of God, so that others might believe through me.
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