Merry Christmas! A Few Thoughts on the Holiday
Pastor Brad
Pastor’s Corner - Christmas
Here are a few interesting thoughts on Christmas for you:
The “mas” in “Christmas” comes from an ancient Saxon word, maessa, which was a celebration of a holy day or a feast from a holy day.
On another note, the Christmas tree in its modern form is thought to have been invented by Martin Luther: he was walking home one winter night when he saw the stars shining through the branches of a fir tree.
He thought the sight so beautiful that he cut the tree down and took it home, where he decorated it with candles so that his family could enjoy the sight as well.
Finally, here is a quote on Christmas from a very influential early Church father: Gregory of Nazianzus, Oration 38, on the birthday of Jesus, AD 380.
“This is our present festival. This is what we are celebrating today — the coming of God to man…so that we might return to God… “So let us keep the feast, not like a heathen festival, but in a godly way — not in the way of the world, but in a way above the world — not as if it were ours, but as it belongs to him who is ours, our Master’s — not as of weakness, but as of healing — not as of creation, but of re-creation.”
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