HomeLet’s put the ‘Christ’ in ‘Christmas’
Christmas is a fantastic season for all of us. It gives us that much needed holiday from a long work year. The gifts on the trees, the sharing and the carols all get us into that “X-massy” mood.
But, aren’t we forgetting something?
Three posts on IBN got me thinking about how most of us have forgotten the real essence of Christmas – Christ!
What makes me say this about three random news stories?
The headlines. All use the word “X-mas”.
If you use the word “X-mas” today, without doubt it means that you are referring to Christmas.
But, does everyone know what the meaning of Christmas? Apparently not all the children in Germany. I read a survey a few days back in a newspaper that this is also the case with UK (can’t find the link).
In the first case children were surveyed and in the second teenagers. I would really love to see the survey results when adults are polled.
Do you know the true meaning of Christmas? Leave a comment and tell me.
As for “X-mas”, that is not the word I use. Always use Christmas. That’s the first step to ensuring that the real reason of Christmas still exists.
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Perhaps we should put Yeshua or Yehoshua back in Christmas. Although He is known as Jesus today, it actually was not His name! Greeks started calling Him Lesus as Christianity started to spread and then Germans spelled it Jesus and that?s where the English language gets it today.
Merry Yeshuamas! Er Christmas!
Didn’t know this part of the history.
Merry Christmas Doug
One tends to put a huge “X” on the Christ and then we get X’Mas instead of Christmas
I guess with all the commercialization of Christmas, Christ does get lost …. That little child in the manger should mean the most to us …. still we are more concerned with “what dress shall i wear for mass?”, “have i put on enough of jewellery ? …. i mean Mrs. D’souza or Mrs. Fernandes shouldn’t have more than me!”, “have i made enough of sweets to give to all and sundry?” , “are there enough decorations on the tree?” “what about presents for the family ?” …….
While Easter is the biggest feast in the Christian calandar, Christmas is where God’s love story with us begins…… he sent us someone very special and dear to him so that we could have a shining example of what God wants us to be – forgiving and loving. He gave us Mary, a woman portrayed to be so weak yet to me she stands as a figure of strength (it takes a strong woman to be as humble as she is), courage (how many of us women would be willing to have children out of the institution of marriage and risk social ridicule?), of selfless giving (how many mothers are willing to give up their children for religious ministries / to see their children die for the cause of others/ to hear their children say that everyone is their mother and brothers? )of determination (she searched and searched till she found Jesus in the synagoge when he was lost at age 12, she pursuaded him to provide the wine for the wedding feast at Cana, she walked with him every step of the way during the terrible ordeal of his death) and most importantly of love (she gave up someone she loved so that others could have a share of him/others could have a change of heart because of him) and then He gave us Joseph …. a person who is always pushed to a position of little importance in the nativity scene ….. yet a person whose actions to me are the most commendable …… he was on ordinary carpenter ….engaged to be married to Mary…….out of the blue the lady is pregnant…. expecting someone else’s child ….. yet he finds in it in heart (we are told God appeared to him in a dream) not to abandon Mary, to love her and the child unconditionally, to stay by her side through the ordeal of childbirth, to put his life at risk by being associated with the saviour and hence having to flee from Herod’s wrath to Egypt – an alien country so that the mother and child are safe …….. , to raise him as his own for 30 years, never holding any resentment against the boy ….. How many men do we know who are willing to go through all of this ……I see them jumping off the minute they find out the child is not theirs ! We have one of the greatest stories ever told associated with our faith …… yet we are more concerned with the commercial aspect of the festival …..
maybe its time we change our area of focus for Christmas …..if not this year then maybe the next …… wishing you all a Christ filled Christmas (and hoping it is also a Merry one !:)
History is interesting Mystery..
Merry Christmas boys..
This was a very interesting read, thank you for posting this article.
Perhaps we should put Yeshua or Yehoshua back in Christmas. Although He is known as Jesus today, it actually was not His name! Greeks started calling Him Lesus as Christianity started to spread and then Germans spelled it Jesus and that?s where the English language gets it today.
Merry Yeshuamas! Er Christmas!