Welcome To Christmas Celebrations :

The word for Christ in Greek is Xristos. Like most of our modern heritage, there’s more to this kaleidoscopic than meets the eye. Basically, it means that there is no historical truth to any of the familiar observations we’ve come to embrace, whether we’re talking about the pagan celebrations or the religious ones. Most historians peg the first celebration of Christmas to Rome in 336 A.

Christmas Eve :
Into some the sun, moon, and stars and other natural objects are introduced, and they seem to be based on myths to which a Christian appearance has been given by a sprinkling of names of holy persons of the Church. Christmas Eve is also in Scandinavian folk-belief the time when the dead revisit their old homes, as on All Souls' Eve in Roman Catholic lands. An old wives' tale says that bread baked on Christmas Eve will never go mouldy. It can hardly be said that any satisfactory account has as yet been given of the origins of this personage, or of his relation to St.

An eye-opening example is the tradition of decorating a tree. Go caroling in the neighborhood and invite the group to your house afterward for hot chocolate and desserts. If you're in this group, you can spend the day religiously-praying for your near and dears, spending a warm time in close quarters, flipping through family albums and cherishing fond memories of bygone years. Organize a Scavenger Hunt

Christmas in other languages :
Duri: Christmas-e- Shoma Mobarak
Irish: Nollaig Shona Dhuit, or Nodlaig mhaith chugnat
Iraqi: Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
Chinese: (Cantonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun