The novena candle is a candle that is lit for nine days, which allows accompanying Catholics who wish to do so during their novena prayer. You may wonderWhy light a candleHow to choose it correctly?
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The candle symbol
In the Catholic Church, the candle flame and the candle symbolize the presence of God that illuminates the world and our prayer that rises to Him. This symbol was used by the Jews in the Old Testament, long before the birth of Christianity.
It is not an obligation light a candle to make a novenaHowever, doing so can help us pray and remember that Christ is really present, and that He is the light of our lives. The fact that the novena candle must remain lit for nine days can help us remain faithful in our prayer until the end.
How to correctly choose your candle to ask for a miracle during the novena?
We can buy the candle for the novena in a store, a Christian bookstore or on the internet.
Very often, during the prayer novenas, the intercession of a particular saint is requested. For example, novenas to Saint Joseph, Saint Rita or Saint Michael are very popular. In fact, sometimes we can get a novena candle with the image of the saint printed on the candle and websites often have a whole range of printed candles. Some sites even offer to customize the candle and print the image you want.
Finally, you should know that novena candles are generally made in different colors, however, although there is no problem in using a colored candlewe must pay attention to sites, often esoteric, that associate the colors of the candles they sell with particular requests and different uses: these meanings have no Christian value!
Make a novena of prayer in
is a Christian prayer site that offers hundreds of spiritual proposals so that each believer can be nourished in prayer. In , you can discover many novenas of prayer, for example, the novena to Saint Joseph, the novena to the Immaculate Conception, the novena to Maria Desatanudos or this beautiful novena to the Holy Spirit. May you enjoy each of them!