Meaning of christmas
Christmas
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Meaning of christmas :
The feast day of Jesus’ birth, traditionally set on December 25th. In the earliest Church there was not much attention given to the anniversary of birth. All the attention was given to remembering his death and resurrection. As interest in visiting the Holy Land and the places where Jesus had lived and walked grew, so did the desire to celebrate his birth. Why the date of December 25th, since we do not know what time of year Jesus was born? A popular but uncertain theory points to the Roman festival in honor of the “invincible sun,” connected to the winter solstice (the date when the amount of daylight begins to increase again). By commemorating the date of Jesus’ birth on December 25th, Christians were able to focus people’s attention not on the pagan festival but on Jesus Christ. A more recent theory points to how communities often linked a famous person’s date of death (if it was known) with their first moment of life (conception). December 25th was set because it was thought to be nine months after the date Jesus died.
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