Author Topic: Altar candles (Read 2420 times)

Texana · « **Reply #5 on:** May 06, 2024, 01:58:41 PM »

Quote from: Michelle on May 05, 2024, 03:50:20 PM

I have a large box of the remains of altar candles. I was thinking about melting them down to make household candles to sell at our craft sale. I was wondering what kind of wax they are made from. Are altar candles 100% beeswax, or a mixture? I would appreciate any help concerning the church laws.

Dear Michelle,

Perhaps it would be better to use your blessed candles for the sacred rather than for a profane, material gain. You could burn them during recitation of the rosary; by the bed of a sick person; to greet Fr. at your door when he comes to your home; for the 3 Days of Darkness. Those candles were present at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. They might have been used in the candelabra for the Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. Those candles are sacramentals, and therefore, should be treated with respect. How would you know how the buyer would use them? Those candles are precious in a very real sense!

Chris Z · « **Reply #6 on:** May 06, 2024, 06:25:36 PM »

I know past members of our chapel took the old altar candles and melted and colored them to reuse them as Advent candles. Market them as such, sell at your chapel, and you could do your best to ensure they are not used for the profane.

Unless of course you think advent wreaths are pagan.

cz

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