Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and PaganXist Publishing, 25.11.2016 - 265 Seiten Reflect on the Christmas Season with a Celebration of Virtue 1900 “To be honest, to be kind--to earn a little and spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence....here is a task..” - Robert Louis Stevenson, A Christmas Sermon A Christmas Sermon is not necessarily a book about Christmas. In fact, it is a book that tries to educate the reader preaching the Christian values of morality, humility and kindness. It is also a book about how to approach the end of a year and the eve of a new one full of hope and optimism. ,This book has been professionally formatted for e-readers and contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. |
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Advent and Christmas Offices of the Roman ChurchThe | |
the LiturgyLatin Liturgical PlaysThe Drama becomes | |
PRECHRISTIAN WINTER FESTIVALS159 | |
All Saints and All Souls Days their Relation to a New Year | |
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angels animals apples Baumkultus Bethlehem Birth blessed Boy Bishop cakes called Candlemas candles carols Catholic celebration Celtic century ceremony Chambers CHAPTER charm Christ Child Christian Christmas customs Christmas Day Christmas Eve Christmas poetry Christmas-tree Church connected crib dance drama dressed drink Dyer E. K. Chambers early England English Epiphany Feast of Fools Feilberg fire first-foot Folk-Lore Frazer German gifts girls given Golden Bough Greek heathen Herefordshire Herod Holy human hymn Ibid Italian Kalends Kallikantzaroi King Latin lighted London Lord Magi manger Mannhardt Martinmas mediaeval Midnight Mass modern morning Nativity Nicholas night Noël origin pagan Perchta play popular practices probably Reinsberg-Düringsfeld religion religious rites Roman round sacramental sacred sacrifice saint season shepherds Shropshire singing solemn sometimes song Souls spirit Stephen's Stephen's Day sung superstitions survival Teutonic thee things Thou tradition tree Twelfth Night Tyrol verses Year's Day Yule log