Hey, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the Catholic Talk Show. Today we're going to be talking about how the Catholic Church uses candles.

That's right. We're going to shine a light on the use of candles in the Catholic Church from everything from baptism, celebrations, and much more.

Let your light shine before all. Today we're talking about the Lumen Christi.

Deo Gracias.

Very nice. Thank you.

All right, guys. Really cool topic. We got some candles out here. There's a lot of things I think people are going to find out today about the use of candles in the Catholic Church.

The candles in the Catholic Church might not have known, probably most likely.

Yeah, candles is one of those things that are really closely and synonymously tied with Catholic worship.

You take just about anyone off the street and you say, well, what does a Catholic Church look like? They're going to say, oh, well, it's crucifix, there's candles, there's incense, right?

But there's a lot of, you know, a lot of really deep symbolism, a lot of deep tradition, and a lot of really interesting facts, uses, and then also their sacramental nature.

So we're going to try to get into all that today. Now before we get started, a big shout out goes to you, Catholic, because these candles are incredible. I'm so grateful.

I feel like this is a chapel right now, but our studio smells like chrysum, and I love the smell of chrysum. That was my hands were anointed with the chrysum oil.

And then it's also the chrysum at baptism. You know, we use this. This is the most treasured oil of them all. And you know, the scent is on point. I am absolutely impressed. This is the most favorable smell of chrysum.

I've ever smelled. That's not the actual chrysum. Well, this is the actual chrysum. It's just not blessed. They use the actual chrysum that's mixed with olive oil. Wow.

In these candles. So it's a really expensive candle to make. It does make our studio smell incredibly better than it normally does, because I hope I'm not, you know, just, you know, sure too much.

But there's three dudes in a small space space. We smell like a bunch of water, yes, you know, and Howard, too.

Oh, and Howard, he's in the corner.

It's fish.

It smells like fish.

What's so cool about about some of this stuff we were talking before the show is just the use of fire for ages and ages.

That's right.

How, you know, rituals almost always included fire like fire was elevated to a deity sort of status and in paying cultures early, paying cultures.

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