will be not at all<\/a>.*<\/p>\nI know, I know.\u00a0 There are some pagan elements in the way Christmas is celebrated.\u00a0 I know that there have always been non-religious elements, borrowed from culture and society, that have rubbed elbows with the more Christ centered meaning of the holidays.\u00a0 I also know that, until the last few hundred years, the Christmas Season included much more than a single day on the 25th, followed by sales and removal of decorations from the stores (what am I thinking?\u00a0 That starts now by around the 23rd).<\/p>\n
But it can\u2019t be argued that somehow, in some way, the Protestant tradition of removing as much of that old papist trapping and keeping the bare bones minimum from the historic Catholic calendar, has come around and bit us all in the rear.\u00a0 Perhaps spreading things out again, getting back in touch with the Church\u2019s take on the season (it\u2019s Advent by the way, not Christmas), could be\u00a0a step in the right direction.\u00a0 You never know. <\/p>\n
*The article in question was a rather lame article.\u00a0 Except for a few stats early on and some TV ratings (which might not account for the number of households who prefer to buy their specials on DVD or Blueray, rather than chance the possible sex saturated commercial preceding Linus\u2019s exposition of the meaning of Christmas), there\u2019s not much to back up the idea that these \u2018traditions\u2019 are fading.\u00a0 It looked more to me like a person who was hoping we could go green, ditch all this worthless meaning of Christmas garbage, including but not limited to this whole family and friends stuff, and get to the \u2018real\u2019 meaning of Christmas \u2013 soon to be found on the latest Wall Street ticker.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
No, not this one: This one: That\u2019s right kiddies, in the old days, when Christianity, and\u00a0more to the point Catholicism, pervaded so much of culture and daily life. today was a special day.\u00a0 Of course the slow development of Christmas in modern times, the influence of Protestantism, the rise of Sts. Macy, Roebuck and Walmart […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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