The establishment of the liturgical feast of Christmas , as the anniversary of the birth of Jesus, and its position to 25 December and late (fourth century). From the historical point of view there are no guarantees it 'on the day and even on the year of his birth.
not be found explicitly in the Gospels. Assuming the historicity of the narratives, some indirect indications of the Gospel are examined by scholars, but do not seem to lead to unequivocal conclusions and shared. The failure to evangelists of interest in dating the birth of Jesus distinguished Even Christians in the early centuries. [wiki ]
It 's very likely that instead has chosen December 25th to Christianize a celebration that was common to many cults and already' then took place in that part of the year Sol Invictus, ie feast of the winter solstice.
The sun is at its lowest declination to be the southernmost point of the horizon and by recording the shortest day of the year, again, from this moment on his way upward.
More information 'on its astronomical significance and symbolic just follow this link not I find nothing wrong with the fact that early Christians would have associated with the birth of Christ. But non-Christian origins of Christmas there is little doubt.
This solves a bit 'of problems. First-
unravels one of my very personal conflicts of interest. Why do you declare a non-believer and then celebrate Christmas? (The other relates to Milan and Berlusconi)
-It allows me to write a good answer to that friend who challenges the self-styled secularism in France and Belgium (Italy Do not you dare anybody to call it secular, would laugh at the chickens) asked why a Muslim and 'forced to leave at Christmas. In general it would not hurt to find match to all Catholic holidays (also) a motivation more 'secular.
-provides a good excuse to Japanese who want to celebrate Christmas, but for reasons consumerism. The feast of the unconquered sun in the land of the rising sun. As smooth as the oil-
Finally abolish what they say is the aberration of the Australian Christmas in a surreal atmosphere with hot sun and the thermometer above thirty degrees. It always happens if you celebrate Christmas when it is not 'Christmas. The correct date would be in truth 'the (glorious) June 25, near' the southern winter solstice.
see how it all back.
It made me smile then claimed by the bishop of Terni founder of the community ' S. Edigidio which also implicitly confirms the origin of the non-Christian holidays. When asked the true meaning of Christmas Christian replied:
is the incarnation of God in a child, poor and helpless, in one of the most remote outskirts of the Roman Empire, Palestine, not in an imperial palace, but in a cave.
A God who was manifested in poverty, and that though 'not ashamed to be represented on earth for two millennia by a church whose primary purpose' has always been the accumulation of material goods.
And I am not referring to Italy today where, for example one quarter of the apartments for rent data belongs to religious bodies and Communion and Liberation, which controls whole regions, and half the government (see The lobby of God). I mean the very beginning, the beginning. It speaks
Oddifreddi in a recent post (IOR , from Peter to his successors ) carry-over and some fragments of which, however, suggest the reading:
Certainly the financial problems of the Church have a venerable history, long as his. How to tell the Acts , date back to one of the first "miracles" of Peter the first Pope when he dropped the couple stiff Ananias and Sapphira, guilty of not having paid the entire community proceeds from the sale of their farm, so that "great fear spread throughout the Church and those who came to know these things."
An uplifting episode, this, about which the official edition of the CEI has to say only that "for the first time the Christian community is called the Church." It does not, however, it reveals from the very beginning that "community called the Church" had begun with the power to forfeit the property of Christians, launching a business the details of which were that "those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the amount of what was sold, and laid the apostles' feet. "
So, drop by drop, or better, field to field and house to house, in two thousand years the Church has been able to accumulate immense wealth, which in the past was administered by the so-called Peter's Pence, and today it is instead of just the pious Institute for Religious Works (IOR).
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If good day starts in the morning, then, was just what we have seen in the first financial scandal of the Church, complete with double murder.
Finally the orgy of consumerism that characterizes the holidays' season is not surprising, and especially not 'something new'. Christmas and 'always a pagan festival and always will be. 'Poverty and altruism have nothing to do. About
. Almost forgot.
Merry Christmas to everyone (Christian or pagan who is)!
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