xoxo sweden

Shrink results results were found for ""

Found in News/Features

Found in Blogs

Found in Forums

Found in Events

Found in Listings

Found in Users

Found in Groups

Found in images

Upcoming Events

30 Nov 2024 11:00 AM / Scandinavian Christmas Goat Market / Portland, Oregon, USA
14 Dec 2024 02:00 PM / LuciaFest, Butik & Kaffestuga / St. Louis, Missouri, USA
05 Nov 2024 06:00 PM / The Moose Paradox and The Beaver Theory / New York, New York, USA
14 Oct 2024 07:00 PM / Screening and Q&A with film directors / New York, New York, USA

Main Stories

Latest news

xoxosweden.com / News / Traditions

Advent

The first Sunday of Advent is just as important as Lucia in Sweden. Advent - the four weeks leading up to Christmas.

Image

Advent
This year on Sunday, December 3 the time has come to light the first candle of Advent.

By the end of November and first half of December friends or colleagues in Sweden gather at restaurants for Julbordet the �Christmas dinner table,� a buffet combining traditional Christmas fare with the delights of the ordinary sm�rg�sbord. Some statistics claim roughly 70% of the employed in Sweden are invited to a Julbord by their companies. That�s over three million guests at restaurant tables ... a good start of the holiday season for restaurants that offer this seasonal treat.

The Sundays of Advent
In people�s homes, the approach of Christmas is signified by getting out the Advent candlestick, which is often a little box with four candleholders embedded in moss and lingonberry sprigs. The first candle is lit on the First Sunday in Advent (this year on Nov. 28) and allowed to burn down by one quarter. Next Sunday it is time for the second candle, and so on, until by the fourth Sunday the first candle has burnt right down and the last one was started. This is a peculiarly Swedish custom, but it was inspired by the �Advent trees� of Germany and became widespread in the 1920s.

Nordstjernan, The only Swedish Newspaper in America covers all of the important traditions, the days to remember that create the unforgettable moments: https://www.nordstjernan.com/subscribe|[Subscribe digital or in print] (Secure link to a Sweder Life)

Check an earlier year's Christmas issue online: Nordstjernan, Christmas 2018 instantly making your life Sweder!

More on Advent: Advent in Sweden - "waiting for Arrival"

The third Sunday leads up to Tomasdagen, Tomas Day, Dec. 21 three days prior to the Fourth Sunday of Advent this year.

During Advent many windows are also hung with an �Advent star,� the original version of which, made of red paper, was introduced in the 1930s. Today you will often see more sophisticated versions of straw, wood shavings or metal. This custom also originated in Germany, but in recent years it has begun to be overtaken by the electric stepped candlesticks, which also shine from the windows of companies and institutions. In our neighborhood, since we have taken to placing both the stars in three windows and the stepped candlesticks we are commonly considered of Jewish origin�the stepped candlestick can easily be mistaken for a �Menora,� the seven-branched candelabrum and one of the oldest symbols of the Jewish people..
Germany also invented the Advent calendar, nowadays called the Christmas calendar and first introduced in Sweden in 1932. Later, with the production of tie-in programs, first on the radio and then also on television, sales of Advent calendars broke all records. These calendars are 3-dimensional with twenty-four windows, one of which is opened every day from December 1 to December 24. Behind each window is a picture, a clue, or � if you�re lucky to have a chocolate calendar � a sweet.

The celebration of Advent then, is of fairly recent origin. It is only in our own time that church services on the First Sunday in Advent have joined the early morning service on Christmas Day in topping the year�s attendance figures in otherwise secular Sweden. Common to many aspects of modern Advent celebrations is the part played by candles, and this is usually quoted to instance a 20th century �candle revival,� with living light� providing a counterpoise to the cold lighting technology which, towards the end of the 19th century, superseded the old, mellower light sources.

Ulf Barslund M�rtensson
Source: Professor Jan-�jvind Swahn, Sweden.

The word Advent has its origins in the Latin word adventus, which means arrival.

The lighting of the first of the Advent candles is often a solemn but happy occasion in Swedish homes. The First Sunday of Advent this year falls on December 3.

Comments

Written by mdwashmanregi on 04 Jan 2020 06:29 PM

Moncler deságio na venda | Moncler barato | Cheap Moncler tomada on-line Moncler Coats Mulheres: 2.014 Moncler tomada Austrália Venda US Dollar Euro GB Pound Canadian Dollar Australian Dollar Jappen Yen Norske Krone Swedish Krone Danish Krone CNY Categorias Moncler Coats Mulheres Moncler Casacos Men Moncler Casacos Mulheres Moncler Coats Men Moncler Homens Coletes Moncler Mulheres Coletes Moncler Xaile Destaques - [mais] Moncler Mulheres Coletes sem mangas azul Double-Sided [00a8]$815.00 $236.00Poupe: 71% menosMoncler Jacket Men Top Quality destacável feminina Preto [8d8f]$1,003.00 $302.00Poupe: 70% menos recém-chegados! Brasão Moncler Mulheres com capuz Windproof Luz [d90a]$1,264.00 $306.00Poupe: 76% menos Casa :: Moncler Coats Mulheres Moncler Coats Mulheres Filter Results by: Itens começados por ... A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Exibindo de 1 a 21 (num total de 140 produtos) 1 2 3 4 5 ... 7 [Próximo >>] recém-chegados! Brasão Moncler Mulheres com capuz preto à prova de vento [6451]MONCLER A marca Moncler foi fundada em 1952 na França, em Monestiers de Clermont, e...$1,272.00 $307.00Poupe: 76% menos recém-chegados! Brasão Moncler Mulheres com capuz vermelho Windproof [3324]MONCLER A marca Moncler foi fundada em 1952 na França, em Monestiers de Clermont, e...$1,261.00 $308.00Poupe: 76% menos recém-chegados! Brasão Moncler Mulheres com capuz Windproof Coffe [a32d]MONCLER A marca Moncler foi fundada em 1952 na França, em Monestiers de Clermont, e...$1,261.00 $306.00Poupe: 76% menos recém-chegados! Brasão Moncler Mulheres com capuz Windproof Luz [d90a]MONCLER A marca Moncler foi fundada em 1952 na França, em Monestiers de Clermont, e...$1,264.00 $306.00Poupe: 76% menos recém-chegados! Brasão para as Mulheres Moncler Seon Euramerican Estilo [b02c]MONCLER A marca Moncler foi fundada em 1952 na França, em Monestiers de Clermont, e...$1,349.00 $300.00Poupe: 78% menos recém-chegados! Brasão para as Mulheres Moncler Seon Euramerican Estilo [b2f9]MONCLER A marca Moncler foi fundada em 1952 na França, em Monestiers de Clermont, e...$1,343.00 $305.00Poupe: 77% menos recém-chegados! Moncler Euramerican Estilo de Down Coats Bl Womens [a827]MONCLER A marca Moncler foi fundada em 1952 na França, em Monestiers de Clermont, e...$1,261.00 $309.00Poupe: 75% menos recém-chegados! Moncler Euramerican Estilo de Down Coats Co Womens [6107]MONCLER A marca Moncler foi fundada em 1952 na França, em Monestiers de Clermont, e...$1,260.00 $300.00Poupe: 76% menos recém-chegados! Moncler Euramerican Estilo de Down Coats Li Womens [6a11]MONCLER A marca Moncler foi fundada em 1952 na França, em Monestiers de Clermont, e...$1,254.00 $301.00Poupe: 76% menos recém-chegados! Moncler forma das mulheres para baixo casacos à prova de vento Bl [4b4a]MONCLER A marca Moncler foi fundada em 1952 na França, em Monestiers de Clermont, e...$1,054.00 $302.00Poupe: 71% menos recém-chegados! Moncler forma das mulheres para baixo casacos à prova de vento Kh [2061]MONCLER A marca Moncler foi fundada em 1952 na França, em Monestiers de Clermont, e...$1,260.00 $298.00Poupe: 76% menos recém-chegados! Moncler forma das mulheres para baixo casacos à prova de vento Li [6f95]MONCLER A marca Moncler foi fundada em 1952 na França, em Monestiers de Clermont, e...$1,258.00 $307.00Poupe: 76% menos recém-chegados! Moncler Hermine de Down Coats Womens Windproof Ar [559a]MONCLER A marca Moncler foi fundada em 1952 na França, em Monestiers de Clermont, e...$1,263.00 $307.00Poupe: 76% menos recém-chegados! Moncler Hermine de Down Coats Womens Windproof Bl [5bab]MONCLER A marca Moncler foi fundada em 1952 na França, em Monestiers de Clermont, e...$1,266.00 $306.00Poupe: 76% menos recém-chegados! Moncler Hermine de Down Coats Womens Windproof Co [307f]MONCLER A marca Moncler foi fundada em 1952 na França, em Monestiers de Clermont, e...$1,256.00 $303.00Poupe: 76% menos recém-chegados! Moncler Hermine de Down Coats Womens Windproof Re [446a]MONCLER A marca Moncler foi fundada em 1952 na França, em Monestiers de Clermont, e...$1,255.00 $299.00Poupe: 76% menos recém-chegados! Moncler para baixo Destaque Mulher slim Windproo [0405]MONCLER A marca Moncler foi fundada em 1952 na França, em Monestiers de Clermont, e...$1,270.00 $303.00Poupe: 76% menos recém-chegados! Moncler para baixo Destaque Mulher slim Windproo [8799]MONCLER A marca Moncler foi fundada em 1952 na França, em Monestiers de Clermont, e...$1,264.00 $308.00Poupe: 76% menos recém-chegados! Moncler para baixo Destaque Mulher slim Windproo [941d]MONCLER A marca Moncler foi fundada em 1952 na França, em Monestiers de Clermont, e...$1,267.00 $304.00Poupe: 76% menos recém-chegados! Moncler Passy Mulheres inverno longo Brown [2075]MONCLER A marca Moncler foi fundada em 1952 na França, em Monestiers de Clermont, e...$1,336.00 $300.00Poupe: 78% menos recém-chegados! Moncler Passy Mulheres inverno longo preto [f101]MONCLER A marca Moncler foi fundada em 1952 na França, em Monestiers de Clermont, e...$1,341.00 $303.00Poupe: 77% menos Exibindo de 1 a 21 (num total de 140 produtos) 1 2 3 4 5 ... 7 [Próximo >>] \ n Casa Remessa Atacado Seguimento da Encomenda cupons Formas de Pagamento Contate-nos Guia de tamanhos Moncler Homens Coats Moncler Homens Jaquetas Moncler Mulheres Coats Moncler Mulheres Jaquetas Moncler Vest Copyright © 2012-2016 Todos os direitos reservados. venda moncler Moncler tomada loja