Home Practices - Votive Candles

Votive candles, or prayer candles, are usedyou must first understand that there are many ways
commonly throughout the world in churches andin which you can practice religion at home when you
other religious ceremonies. The light that burns fromare not at church or temple (depending on your
these candles are commonly recognized as thereligion). You may pray many times a day, not only
presence of a higher power, or God. Although theseat the obvious times such as before you eat, when
candles are primarily used in church, many peopleyou wake up, and before you go to bed after a
actually use them at home as well. Some may lightlong, prosperous day. Some people actually have set
some candles around the dinner table for the purposetimes in which they will stop what they are doing,
of prayer or so that they are accompanied by theand simply pray to their God.
light given off by God while they eat.If you would like to fully utilize this practice, you could
Other people simply have these candles scatteredeven set up a specific room to be your prayer room,
around their house in significant and not so significantlike a sanctuary of some sort. Your own bedroom is
positions, simply so that throughout the day andthe perfect place to set up some votive candles,
night, they are aware of their God. These candlesconsidering that you will be there at least twice a day
can be bought at stores, and online as well, whichand for the majority of most nights. So simply find
gives people a vast selection of differing scented andsome spots where candles will fit into your
unscented candles for their own religious practices atdecoration, and begin to practice your own religion
home.while using the votive candles that are used in
To get into the full description of how to figure outchurches and temples all over the world.
how you would like to use these candles at home,