The following candle lighting originally appeared in "Be Not Afraid—Advent 1: The Hopes and Fears of All the Years."
Advent Candle Lighting
[This was originally designed for the first Sunday of Advent and the candle of hope, but it could also be used for the candle of peace.]
On this [insert week] of Advent, we light the candle of [insert candle name]. [Light candle.] Isaiah gives us a vision of a kingdom yet to come where everything has been made new and where creation is at peace. “A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit. The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him—the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord—and he will delight in the fear of the Lord” (Isaiah 11:1–3). We light this candle as a sign of our waiting and expectation for the coming Christ.
Revised Common Lectionary
Year A: Advent—Second Sunday of Advent
