Guys, wat do u think?
X'mas Is All About:
[X] Friends n Family / Quality Time
[ ] Giving & Receiving (Prezzies!!)
[ ] Religion
[ ] Someone else Religion!
[ ] Commercialism
[ ] Tradition
[ ] Humanity
[ ] Others : please specify
p/s. "X" refers to wat x'mas means to me. Others, wat say ye?
9 comments:
school break
tradition that has been commercialised.
how's that sound?
xxx
Christmas means nothing to me except that I can have my winter breakkkkkkkkkkkkk!
i would say its a friends n family's sake. we are all dying to meet each other due to distance, n God granted x'mas for us to cherish the loved ones.
A Happy Lovely Merry X'mas to all
including you Zack
best wishes,
your classmate 04-06
Dear all
i thank for all da lovely sincere comments of yours. truly u represent urself in da best way u cud.
adik jahat, u r no longer a school stud. so stop acting like a child
anonymous, i wud agree with ur contention. indeed we r commercialising every single thing we've got
aya, its gud 2 hear dat
miss felix navidad,
assuming u r away from family for da whole year round, i hope u will have a enjoyable lovely x'mas.
to all,
merry x'mas
xxx
i cant see what x'mas got to do with religion.
can someone explain?
Xmas means,
*** Bond btw the family n Friends
*** hey, I wanna get present tau on this day
*** Blessing from God
*** Santa Clause??? I still believe in him
*** else, the day that you can eat so many tasty food and take off from the duty...
*** that's all...
anonymous,
hoho.
u will get a x'mas prezzy in return for ur comments.
how true.
wat makes u believe in santa? well for me, i think it wud be nice if santa really exist on earth. he will wipe all da children's tears n pain. i wish he is true.
even i dun know who u are, but i want to thank u 4 visiting my blog. i really appreciate it (from da bottom of my heart)
have a lovely new year
best wishes
xxx
x'mas: an insight
Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday that marks the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. Christmas combines the celebration of Jesus' birth with various other traditions and customs, many of which were influenced by ancient winter festivals such as Yule[1] and Saturnalia. Christmas traditions include the display of Nativity scenes and Christmas trees, the exchange of gifts and cards, and the arrival of Father Christmas (Santa Claus) on Christmas Eve. Popular Christmas themes include the promotion of goodwill, giving, compassion, and quality family time.
Christmas Day falls on December 25. It is preceded by Christmas Eve on December 24, and in some countries is followed by Boxing Day on December 26. Some Eastern Orthodox Churches celebrate Christmas on January 7, which corresponds to December 25 on the Julian calendar. December 25 as a birthdate for Jesus is merely traditional, and is not widely considered to be his actual date of birth.[2]
Christmas is celebrated in most countries around the world, owing to the spread of Christianity and Western culture. Various local and regional Christmas traditions are still practiced.
After the conversion of Anglo-Saxon Britain in the early 7th century, Christmas was referred to as geol[3], the name of the pre-Christian solstice festival from which the current English word 'Yule' is derived. The word "Christmas" is a contraction meaning "Christ's mass." It is derived from the Middle English Christemasse and Old English Cristes mæsse, a phrase first recorded in 1038.[3] Dutch has a similar word, Kerstmis often shortened to Kerst. The words for the holiday in Spanish (navidad), Portuguese (natal), French (noël), Italian (natale), and Catalan (nadal) refer more explicitly to the Nativity. In contrast, the German name Weihnachten means simply "hallowed night."
Christmas is sometimes shortened to Xmas, an abbreviation that has a long history.[4] In early Greek versions of the New Testament, the letter Χ (chi), is the first letter of Christ (Χριστός). Since the mid-sixteenth century Χ, or the similar Roman letter X, was used as an abbreviation for Christ.[5]
It is unknown exactly when or why December 25 became associated with Jesus' birth. The New Testament does not give a specific date.[13] Sextus Julius Africanus popularized the idea that Jesus was born on December 25 in his Chronographiai, a reference book for Christians written in AD 221.[13] This date is nine months after the traditional date of the Incarnation (March 25), now celebrated as the Feast of the Annunciation.[17] March 25 was also considered to be the date of the vernal equinox and therefore the creation of Adam.[17] Early Christians believed March 25 was also the date Jesus was crucified.[17] The Christian idea that Jesus was conceived on the same date that he died on the cross is consistent with a Jewish belief that a prophet lived an integral number of years.[17]
The identification of the birthdate of Jesus did not at first inspire feasting or celebration. Tertullian does not mention it as a major feast day in the Church of Roman Africa. In 245, the theologian Origen denounced the idea of celebrating Jesus' birthday "as if he were a king pharaoh." He contended that only sinners, not saints, celebrated their birthdays.[7]
The earliest reference to the celebration of Christmas is in the Calendar of Filocalus, an illuminated manuscript compiled in Rome in 354.[3][18] In the east, meanwhile, Christians celebrated the birth of Jesus as part of Epiphany (January 6), although this festival focused on the baptism of Jesus.[19]
Christmas was promoted in the east as part of the revival of Catholicism following the death of the pro-Arian Emperor Valens at the Battle of Adrianople in 378. The feast was introduced to Constantinople in 379, to Antioch in about 380, and to Alexandria in about 430. Christmas was especially controversial in 4th century Constantinople, being the "fortress of Arianism," as Edward Gibbon described it. The feast disappeared after Gregory of Nazianzus resigned as bishop in 381, although it was reintroduced by John Chrysostom in about 400.[3]
feliz navidad to all
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