In the last few decades, that knowledge has taken a back seat to the hustle and bustle of shopping, parties and Santa Claus. Even the "comfort and joy" heralded is more about general feelings of ...

"The Spirit of Christmas brings out the best in us ... encouraged people to remember that they belong to Jesus Christ and he was born to lift them. "We are all injured lambs in need of the ...

Jesus, or Jesus Christ, was a 1 st century preacher and ... Various events in Jesus’ life are commemorated in Christian holidays. Christmas celebrates his birthday, Good Friday marks his ...

Christmas 2024 will fall on Wednesday ... birth of the 'sun' on the 25th which applies to both Sol Invictus and Jesus Christ," Bad Ancient says. "The view that Christmas was introduced as a ...

But why should you watch it this holiday season? Well, Christmas was created to celebrate Jesus Christ, and while Scorsese’s religious drama isn’t the most festive, it does one thing well: celebrating ...

Christmas, alongside Easter, stands as one of the church’s most treasured celebrations. These holidays invite the faithful to reflect on the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

To others, Christmastime is all of those things, plus a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. But how many of our Christmas traditions have nothing to do with Jesus’s birth? And was Jesus ...

The exact birth date of Jesus Christ is unclear ... In other countries, the name for Christmas is phonetically closer to "nativity," such as "Navidad" in Spanish, "Natale" in Italian and ...

Each candle is lit on one of the four Sundays leading up to Christmas. In some churches and homes, a fifth candle that is larger and white is lit to represent Jesus Christ, the light of the world ...