tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post6442006972900956449..comments2024-03-09T00:51:33.602-07:00Comments on Little Catholic Bubble: The Christ's Mass, and Prayer Buddy Reveal!!Leila@LittleCatholicBubblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09357573787143230160noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-13716300089727390002010-12-26T14:41:21.401-07:002010-12-26T14:41:21.401-07:00Even when Christianity first moved into the Greco-...Even when Christianity first moved into the Greco-Roman (Hellenistic) culture from its Jewish OT origins theologians had to interpret the Bible in terms of the Greek thought of Plato in order to communicate it. <br /><br />Even today we seek to communicate Christian faith in terms the culture can understand...like Leila does so well!<br /><br />Bubbles aren't necessarily Christian either, but they are when they are "Little Catholic" ones. :-)Stacy Trasancoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14638075878905614981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-31291098327321584782010-12-26T13:28:59.951-07:002010-12-26T13:28:59.951-07:00Thanks, TCIE! You are so sweet!
Mai, to follow up...Thanks, TCIE! You are so sweet!<br /><br />Mai, to follow up on what TCIE said, my grade school son told me yesterday that Jesus was not actually born in December. I told him he was right and patted him on the head. He knew that from his Catholic upbringing. :)<br /><br />Also, I don't want to over-generalize about Protestants. It is mostly the fundamentalists who do not like or understand the Church's Christianization of pagan feasts. Some staunch fundamentalists don't even celebrate Easter or Christmas because of it.Leila@LittleCatholicBubblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09357573787143230160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-67154700859196739332010-12-26T13:18:02.505-07:002010-12-26T13:18:02.505-07:00Mai, you should do some research on the Star that ...Mai, you should do some research on the Star that the Magi followed- you may find the history (of the astronomy) quite amazing, from the first year AD. We Catholics know that the actual calendar DATE is not the important thing about Jesus' birth... but you can certainly find out the actual date if you do a little legwork (and you do seem to be good at doing that, when you want to, that is).<br /><br />Leila, I'm sure Kaitlin really felt your prayers- they are so powerful :)<br />Merry Christmas!Amy @ This Cross I Embracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04766112822487858490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-31738196308943481082010-12-26T13:02:31.020-07:002010-12-26T13:02:31.020-07:00Mai, you could have just asked. I would have told ...Mai, you could have just asked. I would have told you that Christianity has always sought to Christianize paganism. It's how we roll. <br /><br />Protestants seem to find that distasteful, but Catholics have always come to a culture and built Christianity on what was already there.<br /><br />So, you are barking up the wrong tree here, if you think your comments are some kind of "gotcha."Leila@LittleCatholicBubblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09357573787143230160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-89654438957546871152010-12-26T12:13:18.871-07:002010-12-26T12:13:18.871-07:00It's nice that the Catholics continued the pag...It's nice that the Catholics continued the pagan traditions of the midwinter festival. All of those pagan rituals weren't so bad after all! <br /><br />Reading up on all of this Catholic stuff is really mind-boggling. I'm trying to find the best link to a site that talks about the pagan origins of Christmas, and how the Catholics co-opted the pagan festivals and made it their own. This quote from the Catholic encyclopedia is really amazing - the whole article is amazing in itself. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03724b.htm<br /><br />Anyway, from the article: <i>The present writer in inclined to think that, be the origin of the feast in East or West, and though the abundance of analogous midwinter festivals may indefinitely have helped the choice of the December date, the same instinct which set Natalis Invicti at the winter solstice will have sufficed, apart from deliberate adaptation or curious calculation, to set the Christian feast there too.</i><br /><br />They just happened to pick the same date. Here's another prime quote: "O, how wonderfully acted Providence that on that day on which that Sun was born . . . Christ should be born." How wonderful a coincidence, indeed.MaiZekehttp://hameno.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-91683507925545374332010-12-26T09:19:05.382-07:002010-12-26T09:19:05.382-07:00Merry Christmas Leila! And thank you for your pray...Merry Christmas Leila! And thank you for your prayers!<br /><br />I think "hope for the future of the Church" is the biggest compliment anyone could give me :)Kaitlin @ More Like Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02260649249438520187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240447238522390484.post-32710901998515953362010-12-26T08:00:36.883-07:002010-12-26T08:00:36.883-07:00Merry Christmas!
It always makes me so depressed t...Merry Christmas!<br />It always makes me so depressed to see neighbor's Christmas trees out on the curb the day after Christmas, and their decorations pulled down immediately. I love having our tree and lights up until January 6th :). Of course, they've all had their stuff up since Thanksgiving and I just got mine up a couple days before Christmas...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com