Best Christmas Songs
Nov 12
Best Christmas Songs
CHRISTMAS - ORIGIN OF THE WORLD 
Christmas remains an inexhaustible source of poetic inspiration, deep religious feelings, and tender but persistent invitation to open our minds and hearts to the mystery of God incarnate. Best Carols
Scripture and the apocryphal gospels tell the story, the liturgy celebrates its ever present reality. Many devotions centering on the grace of Christmas help us to make of our heart a manger to hold and cherish the Christ child. Finally, poetry tops it all: a Christmas poem should remind us of the story, evoke sentiments of gratitude and praise, and generate in us a sense of wonder and undying hope. The following—poetry as word and symbol—would like to do just that: promote where necessary but mainly entertain the spirit of the season.
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Roman pagans first introduced the holiday of Saturnalia, a week long period of lawlessness celebrated between December 17-25. During this period, Roman courts were closed, and Roman law dictated that no one could be punished for damaging property or injuring people during the weeklong celebration. The festival began when Roman authorities chose “an enemy of the Roman people” to represent the “Lord of Misrule.” Each Roman community selected a victim whom they forced to indulge in food and other physical pleasures throughout the week. At the festival’s conclusion, December 25th, Roman authorities believed they were destroying the forces of darkness by brutally murdering this innocent man or woman.
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The ancient Greek writer poet and historian Lucian (in his dialogue entitled Saturnalia) describes the festival’s observance in his time.
Christians had little success, however, refining the practices of Saturnalia. As Stephen Nissenbaum, professor history at the University of Massachussetts, Amherst, writes, “In return for ensuring massive observance of the anniversary of the Savior’s birth by assigning it to this resonant date, the Church for its part tacitly agreed to allow the holiday to be celebrated more or less the way it had always been.” The earliest Christmas holidays were celebrated by drinking, sexual indulgence, singing naked in the streets (a precursor of modern caroling), etc.
