In the traditionally high church Church of Sweden the use of altar candles is meticulously regulated and will, much as the liturgical colour, vary depending on the liturgical year and is listed along with the prescribed altar flowers in its lectionary. With the exception of Good Friday (when at the conclusion of the Maundy Thursday mass the altar has been stripped in a ritual fashion and thus have no candles upon it) it prescribes two candles for the ordinary, four candles for minor feast days and a full six candles for major feast days.