Christmas

The festival celebrated originally by the Western Church on 25 December to commemorate the birth of Jesus. Christians do not celebrate Christmas because Jesus was born on this day, since we have no way of ascertaining when, specifically, Jesus was born (not even the exact year). This is just the day when, as a community of God's people, we have chosen to commemorate, i.e., to remember and to be thankful in a particularly focused sort of way, God's gift of His Son Incarnate to us, whatever the 'form' of that commemoration. The fact that the season has, in many ways, been taken captive to serve commercial intentions, does not negate its significance for us as a Christian community. Christmas is not about when Jesus was born; it was, and remains, an act of worship and thanksgiving to God for the fact that Jesus was born.

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