Description
Kandili – Blue Glass Table Lamp
Candlesticks are utensils used to decorate the Holy Church and the Holy Altar. The Dormant Candlesticks on the Holy Altar are permanently lit, symbolizing the light of the Lord that radiates to the faithful. The word candle comes from Latin and means candle. The lighting of the candle symbolizes that it is offered as a sacrifice of respect and honor to God and his Saints. It also symbolizes the light of Christ that illuminates every person, as well as the well-known order of our Lord that we, the Christians, should be the lights of the world.
The oil, that is, the oil that burns in our candlesticks, “the oil of God” writes Saint Simeon of Thessaloniki, the mercy of God that was manifested when Noah’s dove returned to the Ark to signal the end of the flood, having in its beak of the olive branch, or when Jesus, as he prayed extensively, watered with the clots of his sweat the olive tree, under the branches of which he knelt on that night of martyrdom, on the Mount of Olives.
The oil symbolizes the infinite mercy of God, but also the candles symbolize the Church which is contagious of Divine mercy and enlightening. Of course, they symbolize the saints themselves whose Light shone, according to the word of the Lord, “before men, so that they may see the good works and glorify the Father in heaven”.
