We had a question last week about the origin of the “Christian Christmas”, and I said I would look it up! According to my sources, it seems that the birth of Jesus started to be celebrated in the 3rd century on the day of the pagan feast of the “Birth of the unconquered sun”. It…
Month: December 2022
Advent IV (A) – Isaiah 7: 10-16, Matthew 1: 18-25
You probably already know that we have two Christmas stories in the Gospel: One by Luke and the other one by Matthew (John and Mark don’t talk about Jesus’s infancy at all). What’s interesting is that we have two different perspectives in Matthew’s and Luke’s and they don’t overlap: Luke tells the birth of Jesus…