Votive Candles
Votive candles accompany personal prayer, often near a shrine. This devotional feature is separate from the altar candles used at Mass.
Key points
- A burning light expresses a prayer offered to God.
- Look for: Small candles near a devotional image.
- An illustrative Roman Catholic parish in the Latin rite, assembled for study rather than surveyed from a single building. Plans, devotional furnishings, music, and the locations of the font and tabernacle vary; Eastern Catholic churches have other traditions. Sizes, materials, and spacing are illustrative, and displayed vessels represent different moments of worship.