FACT: Catholic's celebrate Christmas for 12 days - not just one!!!
It is understood that the 12 days of Christmas song was in fact written by Catholics in England to help teach children about their Christian Faith. (Check out the take home sheet if you want more details!!)
Did you know that the Church celebrates Christmas from Christmas Day until the Solemnity of the Epiphany. The 12th day of Christmas is the Feast of the Epiphany, when the Church remembers the three wise men who arrived to present Jesus with gold, frankincense, and myrrh.This is when we particularly remember our understanding that Christ is the Saviour of the whole world.
(Mt. 2:1-12).
It is just as important to celebrate during the Christmas season as it is to prepare for Christ during Advent. But what is so important about Christmas?
It is almost crazy to think that God, in all God's greatness, wants so much to reach out to us and draw us into a closer relationship that God chose to become a vulnerable child in our messy world!!
This is a uniquely Christian teaching.
It presents a God that is unequalled and supernatural but also a God that is fully a part of our world. God touches, eats, walks, is tested, betrayed and loved. And God also asks for our love and shows us how to love.
Through Jesus, God who is love and all goodness, invites us fully into God's family.
Through the birth of Jesus our reality changed, we are gifted the knowledge that God's hand is in all of this, and that the light, love and truth of God will overcome anything.
This light is the hope with which Christians live, and are asked to carry with us after the christmas trees are pulled down and the presents are packed away.
This light is the hope with which Christians live, and are asked to carry with us after the christmas trees are pulled down and the presents are packed away.
FACT: The official liturgical color of the Christmas Season for Catholic Churches is white or gold, not green and red.
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