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Christmas is a great summer festival in brazil including picnics fireworks and other festivities as well as a solemn procession of priests to the church to celebrate midnight mass.
Did the early church celebrate christmas. When a consensus arose in the church to celebrate christ s conception on march 25th it was reasonable to celebrate his birth nine months later. Tighe offers a different view however. C mon people do a little research use a little reason. Many of the pagan customs became associated with christmas.
The early church clearly kept the what are now known as jewish holy days and saw christian fulfillment s in them especially the spring ones. Do you know what the bible says about the christmas tree. Did paul the apostles and the early church of the new testament celebrate christmas. Does christmas really celebrate the birthday of jesus.
Christmas is literally the mass for christ the day on which christians celebrate the birth of jesus. According to kolbaba for the early church a greater focus was put on easter and the lord s day. The earliest tradition would have been a celebration of a feast day of the church so why then was christmas not considered significant enough by the early christians to celebrate in the fashion of today. How christian is christmas editor s notebook it can be as disappointing as a child s discovery there really is no santa claus finding out the early church didn t celebrate christmas and had no interest in it.
In some parts of india the evergreen christmas tree is replaced by the mango tree or the bamboo tree and houses are decorated with mango leaves and paper stars. The western date for jesus birth was chosen by pope leo i. If the early church could celebrate the resurrection without a specific command from god only the spirit of legalism or the letter of the law would forbid the celebration of christ s birth as a special season of joy and adoration. The gospel writers didn t even bother to tell us the date of jesus birth.
Was he born on december 25th. Origin of christmas traditions. The point is this. And since the apostles observed them in the new testament shouldn t they and not christmas be celebrated by true followers of christ.
The plain truth about christmas. The first part of an early christian worship assembly was open to all including strangers who might be converted by the preaching. Very few know why we do the things we do or where our customs came. And early christians didn t celebrate christmas yet because it was not until santa inc had his initial public offering in 1823 that he had sufficient capital to fund his worldwide enterprise extending operations into the middle east.
