Here's a look at the traditions, and what the season means. Advent is the start of the Christian ... uses four candles. Each candle is lit on one of the four Sundays leading up to Christmas.

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"Every week, a month before Christmas, we light a candle in our house to anticipate the coming of Christ," Mackenzie said.