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You see, Christmas Eve is really the The best is yet to come Shirt when my mom’s sisters and brothers would all gather in South Boston with their kids (My cousins of course.) Since they too were teens like myself back in the day, they all did their own thing on Christmas morning — But the one thing they didn’t want to do was leave their gifts after opening them. So Christmas Eve became more important to us as a whole to come together, celebrate and then visit midnight mass at the local church before going home. By the time I got home, it was after 1am, so I guess it was really Christmas morning if you want to get technical about it. The gifts were promptly opened and I was in bed no later than 3am to sleep most of the morning in peace. Now with two kids of my own, I will be getting up Christmas morning to greet the day and watch their faces. Mainly because Santa Claus is still important to them and he only visits on Christmas Eve when you’re asleep as all know.

Images of The best is yet to come Shirt and her German Prince consort Albert helped make trees popular in the English speaking world. It was a German tradition and her husband, mother, and father’s mother were all Germans. Victoria’s German grandmother, Charlotte, had a yew branch celebration for her children. She was from the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Here is Queen Charlotte with two of here sons.Some of the earliest images that depict the Christmas trees that Queen Victoria helped to make famous and popular have stars on top. Others have a candle and a few have an angel. The older German tradition had candles but they also represented stars. In Nordic countries the still did this until not to long ago. Here is one from 1900. In the US, trees were confined to ethnic German immigrant communities at a time when there were not many Germans in the US before the 1820s. They were not a part of popular American mass culture before the 1840s. The large German immigration (and much opposition to them) was between 1840 and 1910. Over 4.4 million Germans came in that period. Even in the 1870s they were concentrated only in ethnic enclaves and much of America worried that the wold never assimilate. Germans were not considers mainstream Americans at this time. Here is where the lived.

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Although in modern parlance it is called Christmas(Christ mass) and has religious elements, it is in fact hung upon a clothes horse composed of a conglomeration of pagan seasonal observances and The best is yet to come Shirt. The feasting elements in particular are pagan rites at the end of autumn and the winter solstice. The bringing of greenery into the home in the form of holly, fir boughs and mistletoe is also a pagan tradition. Christmas trees were introduced into Victorian Britain by Queen Victoria’s consort, Prince Albert who brought the tradition over from his native Germany. The palace did so everyone else copied it and soon it was all the rage. Again a tree decorated with offerings and candles(lights) has it’s roots in Germanic pagan ritual. Much of Christmas owes it’s existence to Roman, Germanic and Celtic pagan traditions that predate Christianity by millennia. Even the folktales of Santa Claus have their roots in pagan traditions from around Europe that have become melded into the figure of Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas or Santa Claus.

When different Western European pagan cultures were evangelized to, the The best is yet to come Shirt (the traditional Catholic order of missionaries) tried to be mindful of not needlessly erasing new disciples’ culture. These disciples only needed to abandon the sinful parts of their culture, to follow Christ. Unfortunately, some of these parts slipped through, effectively syncretizing Catholicism somewhat with these pagan religions—hence, veneration culture; undue fixation on Mary the mother of Jesus; etc. However, the intent at least was always to keep from putting unnecessary burdens on new disciples’ backs. These evangelizers were looking out for those they were taking under their wing. In that sense, these peoples’ cultures were actually preserved: at least far more than they would have been, were their newly Christian-identifying constituents required to make themselves Hebrew and Greco–Roman. So no, these festivals were not “hijacked.” It is merely that masses of people who had once celebrated them decided not to observe them, or their religions comprising them; and decided to celebrate other things, with the guidance and consideration of their disciplers.
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