{"id":90181,"date":"2019-11-29T13:03:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T17:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=90181"},"modified":"2019-09-22T16:00:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T20:00:29","slug":"mid-weekend-open-thread-advent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=90181","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Weekend Open Thread, Advent"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_91197\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91197\" style=\"width: 444px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-91197\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Advent-wreath-by-Conservative-Tree-House-444x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Advent-wreath-by-Conservative-Tree-House-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Advent-wreath-by-Conservative-Tree-House-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Advent-wreath-by-Conservative-Tree-House-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Advent-wreath-by-Conservative-Tree-House-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Advent-wreath-by-Conservative-Tree-House.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Advent Wreath with three candles lighted. This shows the lighting on the third Sunday of Advent. The name for this Sunday is Gaudete Sunday (rejoice). Rose (instead of purple) vestments are used during mass in some denominations. This first Sunday of Advent is this Sunday, the first candle will be lighted. (Conservative Treehouse)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hopping that you guys had an enjoyable Thanksgiving, great-tasting turkey, ham, potatoes, pies, dressing, etc. With the end of Thanksgiving, Christmas decorations have started to go up. Some people already have their Christmas decorations up.<\/p>\n<p>Many will keep their decorations up until the day after Christmas. Then, on December 26, stripped Christmas trees will find their way to the curb if garbage pickup is the next day. Or, they&#8217;ll be waiting patiently right next to the garbage bin.<\/p>\n<p>With decorations like that, who needs Advent decorations, right?<\/p>\n<p>The Advent season comes before Christmas season. It starts four Sundays before Christmas. This year, it starts on December 1, 2019. The last day of Advent is Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p>Advent comes with its own decoration&#8230; The Advent Wreath with four or five candles. The four candles are usually purple, or three purple and one rose. If a fifth candle is included, it&#8217;s white and placed in the middle. Other wreaths use blue instead of purple candles. Each Advent Sunday, a new candle is lit until the fourth candle is lit the Sunday before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Some wreaths have six little candles in between the four big candles. This allows for the lighting of a candle each Advent night.<\/p>\n<p>Purple is the liturgical color of Advent. Some denominations use blue instead of purple to symbolize the Nativity. The pink-colored candle represents the third Sunday of Advent. Church services (mass) is usually purple themed, with purple vestments, draping, cloths, etc&#8230; Unless white or red is the color for the day.<\/p>\n<p>Advent is a period of &#8220;fasting and penance&#8221; for many Christians. Then, the Christmas Season is a period of feasting and celebration.<\/p>\n<p>For those with five candles, the fifth candle is lit on Christmas Day&#8230; The first day of the Christmas season. The candle is white, as the liturgical color switches to white on Christmas Day. For some of the folk mentioned above, this is also the last day the Christmas decorations are up.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the balance of your weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopping that you guys had an enjoyable Thanksgiving, great-tasting turkey, ham, potatoes, pies, dressing, etc. With &hellip; <a title=\"Mid-Weekend Open Thread, Advent\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=90181\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mid-Weekend Open Thread, Advent<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91196,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90181\/revisions\/91196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}