Reclaiming Christmas

December 16, 2010

I stumbled across an excellent article written by an Orthodox Priest talking about Christmas. The article discusses at length how truly pagan the season has become in our midst and gives some enlightening direction about amending our own practices to resist the temptation to celebrate Christmas before it arrives. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately as we have been going to 8 million Christmas functions over these past few weeks. It’s a really neat article and I highly recommend we read it and take its words to heart and hopefully reclaim Christmas! I post this on the eve of the “mini Holy Week” of Advent, where the Great “O” Antiphons may be prayed and focus on some solemn joy of Advent and prepare for the coming King.