Thank you, Katharina, for the story of the Advent Wreath and the poems. In our church (Bethany Lutheran), as in many, I know, the Advent Wreath is a feature of the Advent season. For the four Sundays of Advent, church service opens with an Advent Wreath ceremony: a family of the congregation goes forth to light the appropriate Advent candle (of the four - no wagonwheels here, either), while an Advent reading is proclaimed by another person who is standing behind the congregation. Dave Ross Denver