https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2018/12/is-december-25-really-day-when-chris Tue, 19 Feb 2019 06:47:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2018/12/is-december-25-really-day-when-chris#comment-378 Mon, 11 Feb 2019 06:31:32 +0000 https://blog.smallpage.online/2018/12/is-december-25-really-day-when-chris.html#comment-378 While there is good evidence that it was a late September birth and the star lines up for the Bethlehem star on Dec. 25 (so the wise men gave gifts, interesting) the date is not of concern. The passover feast date is but this is a celebration of this coming only the Spirit is important. We rejoice in God with us Emmanuel. So let us rejoice in one accord. He was born, died and has risen. Amen.

]]> https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2018/12/is-december-25-really-day-when-chris#comment-349 Thu, 27 Dec 2018 22:29:10 +0000 https://blog.smallpage.online/2018/12/is-december-25-really-day-when-chris.html#comment-349 You say “pagans”, but the pagani were the uneducated country dwellers. The Mithras cultists who insisted on 25 December as the birthday of the saviour were very largely educated army officers and all were male. Pagan (in the correct sense) beliefs tend to be about fertility and have a strong female component, for example Ceres and Persephone. I suggest, Fr Panayiotis, that Christmas is not about the worship of Creator VERSUS creation but that of the Creator IN creation, the economy of the Incarnation culminating in the Resurrection and the overthrowing of death and original sin.

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