Lud, Christ is bilocated, not from his cradle, and not from Heaven, but from Calvary to the Catholic altar. Various Catholic saints (and Christ himself) biolocated. Bilocation is where you are in more than one place and/or time at once.

Voris is a typical modernist. Modernists, among other things, viewing the birth of Christ as more positive than his death, try to make the Mass, at least in part, about the birth of Christ. But we do not include the celebration of the birth of Christ in the Mass except during Christmas.

The feast days of the saints, as you know, are generally celebrated on the date of their death, rather than the date of their birth. Modernists would probably want to reverse that.

And Pathetic, I understand what you are saying, you are saying that when Christ said “Do this in memory of me”, he was saying something that “was not of God”. And when priests obey his command, they are doing something that "is not of God".

Louie

Christmas or Christmas Day (Old English: Cristesmæsse, meaning "Christ's Mass") is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ,[7][8] observed most commonly on December 25[4][9][10] as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.[2][11][12] A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it is prepared for by the season of Advent or the Nativity Fast and initiates the season of Christmastide, which historically in the West lasts twelve days and culminates on Twelfth Night;[13] in some traditions, Christmastide includes an Octave.[14]


Other names
In addition to "Christmas", the holiday has been known by various other names throughout its history. The Anglo-Saxons referred to the feast as "midwinter",[50][51] or, more rarely, as Natiuiteð (from Latin nativitas below).[50][52] "Nativity", meaning "birth", is from Latin nativitas.[53] In Old English, Geola (Yule) referred to the period corresponding to December and January, which was eventually equated with Christian Christmas.[54] "Noel" (or "Nowel") entered English in the late 14th century and is from the Old French noël or naël, itself ultimately from the Latin natalis (dies), "birth (day)".[55]

History

Nativity of Christ – medieval illustration from the Hortus deliciarum of Herrad of Landsberg (12th century)
The earliest known Christian festivals were attempts to celebrate Jewish holidays, especially Passover, according to the local calendar. Modern scholars refer to such holidays as "Quartodecmials" because Passover is dated as 14 Nisan on the Jewish calendar. All the major events of the life of Jesus were celebrated in this festival, including his conception, birth, and passion. In the Greek-speaking areas of the Roman Empire, the Macedonian calendar was used. In these areas, the Quartodecimal was celebrated on April 6. In Latin-speaking areas, the Quartodecimal was March 25. The significance of the Quartodecimal declined after 165, when Pope Soter moved celebration of the Resurrection to a Sunday, thereby creating Easter. This put celebration of the passion on Good Friday, and thus moved it away from the Quartodecimal.[57]

The Christian ecclesiastical calendar contains many remnants of pre-Christian festivals. Although the dating as December 25 predates pagan influence, the later development of Christmas as a festival includes elements of the Roman feast of the Saturnalia and the birthday of Mithra as described in the Roman cult of Mithraism.[58]

Choice of December 25 date
In the 3rd century, the date of birth of Jesus was the subject of both great interest and great uncertainly. Around AD 200, Clement of Alexandria wrote:

“ There are those who have determined not only the year of our Lord's birth, but also the day; and they say that it took place in the 28th year of Augustus, and in the 25th day of [the Egyptian month] Pachon [May 20] … And treating of His Passion, with very great accuracy, some say that it took place in the 16th year of Tiberius, on the 25th of Phamenoth [March 21]; and others on the 25th of Pharmuthi [April 21] and others say that on the 19th of Pharmuthi [April 15] the Savior suffered. Further, others say that He was born on the 24th or 25th of Pharmuthi [April 20 or 21].[59] ”
In other writing of this time, May 20, April 18 or 19, March 25, January 2, November 17, and November 20 are all suggested.[8][60] Various factors contributed to the selection of December 25 as a date of celebration: it was the date of the winter solstice on the Roman calendar; it was about nine months after March 25, the date of the vernal equinox and a date linked to the conception of Jesus; and it was the date of a Roman pagan festival in honor of the Sun god Sol Invictus.

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Merry Christmas Isna. Have a good one. No stinking snow here.

Had a dump of snow overnight - it's sure looking like the season.

Mirthily Christmas... <----- Not eggnog..

Merry Christmas !

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