Christmas is a holiday for every Christian. It commemorates the delivery of Jesus Christ greater than 2,000 years ago. Christian church buildings maintain non-secular offerings to have fun Christmas. In the middle of the night on Christmas Eve, most churches preserve unique candlelight services.
However, Christmas is likewise a social and circle of relative’s vacation. It is far a pageant of goodwill, a time for a circle of relatives, pals, food, and gift giving.
Many people prepare Christmas cookies, enhance their houses, and vicinity gives under the own family Christmas tree. Children often hang up stockings for Santa Claus to fill with small gifts. In line with the subculture, Santa arrives on a sleigh pulled by reindeer. Gifts or presents are normally opened on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
The Christmas season is popularly called the Twelve Days of Christmas. It extends from the anniversary of Christ’s birth on December 25 to the banquet of Epiphany on January 6. The Epiphany honors Jesus’ baptism and the advent of the three clever men in Bethlehem.
No one knows precisely when is the birth date of Jesus Christ. For decades, neighborhood Christian church buildings celebrated Christ’s start at distinct instances. Then, within the ad 300s, the Roman Catholic Church set the beginning date on December 25.
At that time, older non-Christian galas had been celebrated around Christmas. The Romans celebrated Saturnalia, a festival honoring their god of harvest and god of light. Different Europeans held festivals in mid-December marking the give up of the harvest season. The Roman Catholic Church possibly chose December 25 to offer a Christian meaning to those older fairs.
The Orthodox Church, the Christian church in the east, also started out using December 25 because of the delivery dates of Jesus. However, the Orthodox Church places more importance on celebrating Jesus’ baptism on January 6.
Years and years passed that you had been celebrating Christmas. What does the celebration mean to you?
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Personally speaking, Chrismas is to share love with people close to my heart. I don't mind having tangible things during this Christmas season. Love can make the world go around. That's the real meaning of Christmas for me. It shouldn't be put into opinionated meanings. It best describes as LOVE. :-)
@shavkat, thank to that idea, and is very true. And that love maybe shown through action like caring, hugging, or any physical expressions, and also through giving of gifts.
We all must keep in mind that all religious feasts and festivals teachings teach us to love human being, men and women, old and young, great and small birds and beasts...The Christians' Christmas,the Muslims' Eids and Hindus' Festivals...all teach us just one lesson to love human being and worship God at one platform.
But I have seen and observed that the essence of all religious teachings has disappeared along with it fear of God and trust in God has also fled from men' and women's heart. Now we all are standing in dark and dreary land forgetting friends and foes killing each other in the wood of ignorance.
I think sometimes in lone we ll must love all human beings with their whole hearts but alas we all have forgot love and pursuing hate and greed in practical life. Think, where we are going? WE have left or true track that leads us all to heaven.
Let us think all in love how to spread love on earth among men and women, birds and beasts, old and young...Come out of the shell of ego and greed and make above selves than materialism and greedism.
Christmas means a lot to me. During the Christmas program , we do have so many program that make some sinners got saved and even the whole world knew that there is a particular program- in the town. So Christmas makes me also remember that Christ came and died for our sin.
Christmas period prepare us for a new year ahead
Christmas mean to me that has brought a special thing into my life. It thought me that we should give ourselves to God. We remember that God through Jesus Christ came to the world and redeem us from the everlasting perdition so as to gain paradise, the place God.
@jhsayyar, imparting those knowledge about what is really mean by Christmas is quite impressive and I learned a lot from it. Most especially that love matter.
@Timothy, your belief about Christmas is somewhat the same of what I believe it is. Thank you for sharing your thoughts where anyone would relate from it, im sure.
In a Christian context to.me Christmas marks the day out savior Jesus Christ was born to come and redeem the world from sin. And that to me is the greatest gift of christmas knowing that i was redeemed off of my sins. Now in the "worldly" contact if I may call it that, it's simply a time of making merry being with your loved ones, having fun cooking and eating is the most ideal thing during Christmas. People travel far and wide to be with their loved ones so that they can share the joy of christmas together. We will share gifts to each other and just spend a wonderful time together. This is also a time when people take time off work to go and spend time with their families after working the whole year without a break. So even as we do all this things let's not forget the actual reason for christmas. Am sorry to say this but nowadays Christmas has become more of a materialistic thing than what it really is. We hear of people doing crazy things just because they do not have a dress or a gift for christmas and that should not be the case.
Christmas is a time of remembrance and love for me.Yes I show love all year round, but at Christmas, I get to see those family members i haven't see throughout the year. We jokingly calling once a year family because we only see them at Christmas. But this is the time when there is a lot of cooking and variety and food items we haven't had throughout the year. It is also a time when new family members get introduced whether they be boyfriends, girlfriends, or babies. We share stories, laugh and play games together. It is a fun time.