Father Jorge Arias, of the Archdiocese of Bogotá, called on the faithful not to lose the meaning of this celebration, because “many light the candles, but they don’t even know why they light them,” or others make this date a party. society in which alcohol predominates, instead of concentrating on the mystery.
“Let us start from a Christian conception where precisely the celebration of the Night of the Candles is born: as a gratitude for Christmas, which is the celebration of the irruption of God in the middle of our history,” he told ACI Prensa.