Legend of the Christmas Candle
Pennsylvania Dutch
The legend of the Christmas Candle tells that it will be instrumental in ensuring good luck, good health, and happiness during the year if burnt on Christmas Day. When it is lighted, it must be burned until it flickers out (this takes 6 to 8 hours), and once lighted, it must be allowed to burn to the end without being extinguished.
When the Pennsylvania Dutch families burned a Christmas Candle, it was one given to them by a friend or family member . . . never one bought by the family lighting and burning it. The following is the verse included with the candle as a gift . . .
"Always burn a candle on Christmas Day. When it is given with love, it will burn bright and clear, and the holiday light shed by the candle foretells happiness lasting all through the year."
We wanted to share Christmas with you in spirit as our candle burns brightly with yours and other family members and special friends. Taking part in this tradition offers us comfort and peace as we spend this Christmas at home away from family and friends. It is our hope that you, too, will take up this tradition with your family. Please feel free to copy this page, print it out, or send it to someone. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a candle burn in every home around the world?!
Please pray for peace,
Love, laughter, and rainbows ~
Roger, Laurie, Corey
Samson, Lady, Buddie, & Little Mister
