What does the lighted candle represent at baptism?
When a child is baptized, the light put on to their candle is drawn from the Easter candle. This signifies that the light of Christ’s love can and will overwhelm the power of sin in the soul of the baptized. From the moment of baptism forward, the baptized is new unto God in that they carry with them the supernatural life of Christ. That light, if carried unto death without being extinguished due to mortal sin, allows the baptized to become worth of the gift of salvation.
