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Kill Santa! Father Christmas, Santa Claus, christmas, coca cola and multinational

This article could very well be entitled SANTA VS JESUS \u200b\u200b'KID reading you will discover why. But what Occor re-affirm the cake lovers of god, the god father christmas, grinch of god, god's "spirit of Christmas," is that Jesus Christ is a historical event, as well as the Gospels tell us about it as well as demonstrated by the experience of faith. It is necessary to remember this Presence that is born for us, despite some tricksy business, despite many thinking of Dec. 25 it will spend only the panettone and the balances of hyper-mega super markets. E 'born, born and will continue to rise over the centuries the centuries. Meanwhile, we pray to Him to have mercy on us.

Francesco Mario Agnoli

Santa Klaus ... had already made his first appearance in the United States to serve the marketing department of Coca-Cola, which in 1931 had commissioned such a Haddon Sundblom. This Swedish-American painter, inspired by the face and figure to a trucker friend of his had met that year in the best way the needs of the buyer even replace the traditional green dress with the old and harmless Santa Claus, one white and Red: the color of Coca-Cola.
I discover a website which operates in Austria Verein pro Christuskind ( http://www.pro-christkind.org/ ), that is a league or club that aims to return to the center of Christmas family holiday, the Child Jesus, expelling that bearded fat man dressed in red, on suspicion of being drunk his cheeks ruddy, who, usurping the name of Santa Klaus, and in Latin countries, Christmas (Santa Claus, Pere Noel and the like), has downgraded to a feast of gifts. The command of the operations in Austria, but the battlefield has the same boundaries and at the opulent West Europe, because it is also to maintain (or regain) our Christmas traditions (Möchten Wir unsere Tradition des Christkinds erhalten, ohne dabei zu andere Traditionen verdrangen, reads the manifesto of the association) and, in fact, the first operations took place in those countries where the Child Jesus entrusted the task of parents to bring small gifts to children in the Holy Night: Austria, Switzerland and Germany (in this 'Finally, a priest in Frankfurt, Eckard Bieger, which I assume related to the Austrian company, took example from the posters against Atomic Energy Agency and released a large number of stickers with the words This is a Santa-free zone). When I was born
Santa Klaus (consumer version of that St. Nicholas of Bari, which in some parts of Europe linked to this tradition, from the northern extreme south, on the night of December 6 of each year traveled the countryside, leaving some candy in your shoes or clogs in the good children) had already made his first appearance in the United States to serve the marketing department of Coca-Cola, which in 1931 had commissioned such a Haddon Sundblom. This Swedish-American painter, inspired by the face and figure to a trucker friend of his had met that year in the best way the needs of the buyer even replace the traditional green dress with the old and harmless Santa Claus, one white and Red: the color of Coca-Cola.
In fact, even if they are not exactly the same age as that of a bearded clone, however innocent American truck driver close enough. The fact remains that the small difference in age and geographical distances and cultural, at the time, with globalization just in its infancy, much more important and decisive today, have saved my Christmas night, while waiting for charges to find the gifts in the morning before the crib, the bulky presence of fat red-dress.
unfortunately I must confess my ignorance about the ancient traditions and authentic Bolognese about gifts (I can only suppose, inspired by the still existing and vibrant show that bears his name, and Bologna, where I was born, the benefactor of good children was, on the occasion of his anniversary, Dec. 13, the young martyr Lucy of Syracuse). In the hills of Romagna Borgatello my mother's children were dependent in every way for gifts from our local, rustic Epiphany, which in the first decade of the twentieth century, not yet included in the authority of the Fascist Party, hung in the chimney filled socks (usually sparingly) with chocolates and sweets or (in the city, these refinements were unknown country), for the less good, with pieces of coal, a kind of gray, but after the first disappointment almost always turned out to be edible and made up of sugar in disguise. My father was orphaned of both parents at a very early age, had probably never known the Christmas traditions of his Liguria. As a result, the world of Christmas which is acknowledged, as a result of his studies and periods spent in Germany, although Germany was catholic corrected with a preference for the crib instead of the evergreen Tannenbaum. The fact is that the gifts had to take me, as for the children of the pro Christuskind Verein, the Infant Jesus, adequately stocked by shops and bakeries, where they worked hundreds of blonde angels (I still, as the Italian cuisine in the sky, a booklet describing in verse and pictures, the laborious work of angels confectioners, published in 1933 in Monaco from 'editor Joseph Mueller).
Moreover, whatever the local tradition, I was not alone in being in this situation. Most of the children of my acquaintance who shared with me the privilege of receiving gifts not only for the Epiphany (this is now happening to all or almost, because the Epiphany home had now added or replaced while those in the PNF, which appeared in the flesh at the local House of the beam) but even on Christmas Eve, waiting for them by the Child Jesus
It 's true that morality would be against this mixture of sacred and profane and find something simplistic and even dangerous to attribute to Jesus, even a child, a role that is not its responsibility and that in fact does not play, as the recipients of his gifts do not need to find fabulous fresh from the mists of early childhood. However I am not aware that anyone has lost faith in order to have discovered that it was not baby Jesus to leave their gifts before the crib or under the tree and the playful lie (the lie if you want to define) still had the advantage of placing the sole protagonist in the middle of the Christmas party without replacing it or accompany it with false -smiling servant of Mammon, master rigorous and unique, that can not be served together with God
With this background and with the ancient hatred of consumerism in general and especially at Christmas my participation to the initiative of Austria can not be total.
and then withdraw them half of this clone of a truck driver, this pseudo-saint of advertising, which, after all, to better perform its tasks has begun advertising for some time to reproduce in a wide array of doubles, some of them women, endowed with the alluring form of papers and letters ..
The easiest way to get rid of it and hurried to shoot a gun straight to the heart, make a bonfire of his sled and sent free to the tundra of Lapland or Finland birch forest reindeer forced to serve.
Unfortunately, this procedure is sloppily made impossible by the fact that despite the efforts of Walt Disney Santa Claus does not have a heart. It is therefore necessary to choose methods are slower, but, hopefully, be equally effective. Pricked with a thousand small shocks, as, indeed, the stickers, which brings it to the call, through that his ridiculous red dress to literally thousands of small holes from which can flow instead of blood, gas or anything which inflate and they do fly around the heavens like a zeppelin advertising.
Above all, we should be careful not to be moved by the tears of children. Remember that these are innocent deceived, small consumers who, thanks to the dark double of St. Nicholas, are bred and fattened to form the future are not cattle to be sacrificed on the market, but the induced needs, superfluous needs, the extravagant desires and insatiable. that just satisfied playing multiplied to make the so-called spin machine of progress, whose motion to the final inevitable destruction is accelerated by the day thanks to drivers like crazy and incompetent white bearded Santa Claus. Möchten
Wir, dass auch unsere Kinder die Chance haben, kennen zu lernen unsere Traditionen, write the members of the Austrian Verein, and, in fact, the disappearance of Father Christmas will not remove the anxiety of waiting festive from their eyes, nor smile from their lips, but on the contrary, will make them calmer, more real, more able to withstand the ravages of time and life, because it will merge into a single, complete and true two-dimensional universe the hours kept separate and opposed, and, for the purposes of this expectation and that smile, the more modest gifts will, thanks small hands bearers of love and peace which comes symbolically, exactly the same value as the largest.
We who are lucky enough to have tried it have a duty (I have tried to fulfill it with my kids, now, in turn, fathers and mothers) to free the parents of the generations that have followed us from the chains and their children apparently golden dell'omino that, despite the good-natured smile, instead of the heart has a calculating machine and a cash position permanently in operation.

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The crib is a sign of culture and faith

VATICAN - Pope: The crèche is a sign of culture and faith

December 2, 2004 - by www.asianews.it

in Italy in recent days has made headlines in the news that some schools do not prepare the crib out of respect for students of other religions, particularly Muslims. In the debate that has arisen, many Muslims have spoken out in favor of the crib, since Islam reveres Jesus as a prophet. Church figures have stated that whoever wants to remove the crib from the schools is really not moved by respect for Muslims but by secularist ideas that confuse tolerance with relativism of ideas.
Vatican City (AsiaNews) - Pope John Paul II reaffirms the value of the crib. Speaking before the Angelus, the pope called the representation of the birth of Jesus as "a part of our culture and art, but above all a sign of faith in God, who came to Bethlehem 'to dwell among us' (Jn 1:14)." In St Peter's Square boys and girls were present in Rome for the traditional blessing of the statue of the "Child", which will be placed in the crib.
in Italy in recent days has made headlines in the news that some schools do not prepare the crib out of respect for students of other religions, particularly Muslims. In the debate that has arisen, many Muslims have spoken out in favor of the crib, since Islam reveres Jesus as a prophet. Church figures have stated that those who want to cancel the crib is actually driven by schools not by respect for Muslims but by secularist ideas that confuse tolerance with relativism of ideas.
is what the pope said before the Marian prayer:
"the feast of Christmas is approaching and in many places is already in setting up the crib, like here in St. Peter's Square. Small or large, simple or elaborate, the Nativity scene is a familiar and expressive representation of Christmas. It is part of our culture and art, but also a sign of faith in God, who came to Bethlehem "and dwelt among us" (Jn 1:14).
As every year, soon I will bless the Baby Holy Night that will be placed in cribs, which are already found Joseph and Mary, silent witnesses of a sublime mystery. With their loving eyes, they invite us to watch and pray to welcome the divine Savior, who comes to bring the world the joy of Christmas. This same joy
exhorts us to a foretaste of today's third Sunday of Advent, called "Gaudete" Sunday. Ask the Virgin of expectation that he is alive among Christians and all people of good will desire to meet the Lord now at hand. "Copyright © 2003 AsiaNewsTutti rights reserved

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historical date is December 25

Tommaso Federici

taken from 30-day, year XVIII, November 2000, p. 63-68.

It was not an arbitrary choice to supplant the ancient pagan festivals. Recent findings corroborate the historical reliability of the date of Christmas. When the Church celebrates the birth of Jesus in the third decade of December, draws the continued memory of the first evangelical Christian community regarding the facts and the places that happened. Tommaso Federici, professor emeritus of biblical theology, takes stock of recent evidence and findings that confirm the historicity of the date of Christmas A preamble generally is hired and assumes without question the already old news that the celebration of Christmas in the first half of the fourth century was introduced by the Church of Rome for ideological reasons. It would have been paid to December 25 to counter a dangerous pagan celebration, Christmas invicti Solis (Mithra was, as is likely, or was a titration of a Roman emperor). This festival was set at the winter solstice (21-22 December), when the sun resumed its course toward its triumphant increasing shine. So in Christian circles, going up to nine months, it had set March 25 to celebrate the announcement to Mary of Nazareth Virgin and her Immaculate Conception of the Son and Savior. As a result, six months before the birth of the Lord had also put the memory of the birth of the prophet and his forerunner and John the baptist. On the other hand, the Christian West not celebrating the announcement of the birth of John the father, the priest Zaccaria. Instead, and very long time, is commemorated in the East Syrian on the first Sunday of the "Time of the Annunciation (Subari), which includes five other Sundays the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary, the Visitation, the birth of John the Baptist, the 's announcement to Joseph, the genealogy of the Lord according to Matthew. The Byzantine East, from time immemorial and always, also celebrates the September 23 announcement to Zechariah. We have four dates in succession evangelical chasing intersect, namely i) the announcement to Zacharias and II) six months after the Annunciation to Mary, III), respectively nine three months after the first two dates, the birth of John the Baptist, and IV), respectively, six months after that date, and of course nine months after the Annunciation, the Birth of our Lord and Savior. The contact person for so-called "liturgical" of this would then Christmas, December 25th, on which, we assume, were placed the feast of the Annunciation nine months earlier, and the birth of John the Baptist first six months. Historians and liturgists different assumptions about this place more or less accepted. The problem is that over the centuries have II-IV had been made several dates, which took account of astronomical calculations, or theological ideas. A given "historical" external, that it was not biblical, patristic and liturgical, and that brings a confirmation to scholars, was not yet known. A reference: the announcement to Zacharias Luke has some of his care to situate the story. Thus, for example, cites "the decree of Caesar Augustus for the long census of Quirinius (about 7-6 BC), during which occurred the birth of the Lord (Lk 2, 1-2). Also refers fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar (about 27-28 AD), when John the Baptist began his preaching preparation of the Lord (Lk 3, 1). It notes: "And Jesus himself was starting [his ministry after Baptism, Luke 3, 21-22] almost 30 years" (Lk 3, 23), having done about 33 or 34 years. According to his evocative account of the Gospel, the same Angel of the Lord, Gabriel, six months before the Annunciation to Mary (Luke 1: 26-38), the conclusion of the solemn celebration of sacrificial shrine daily announced in the elderly priest Zechariah that his wife, barren and old, Elizabeth , would conceive a child, intended to prepare a people to Him who was to come (Luke 1: 5-25). Luke is concerned to situate this with a precision that refers to a given known by all. So that tells Zechariah belonged to the class [priestly, Ephemera] of Abijah "(Luke 1, 5), and while Gabriel is" exercised the priesthood in turn [taxis] of his order [ephemera] "(Lk 1, 8). Thus refers to a general fact without difficulty, and a specific and timely, which presents a problem. The first fact, we all know, was that in the sanctuary of Jerusalem, according to the narrative of the chronicler, David himself had ordered that the "sons of Aaron were distinct in 24 táxeis, Hebrew sebaot, the" shift "perennial (1 Cr 24 , 1-7.19). These "classes", in alternating order unchanging liturgical service had to pay for a week "from Saturday to Saturday," twice a year. The list of the priestly classes to the destruction of the temple (the year 70 AD) according to the text of the Septuagint was determined by drawing lots, like this: I) Iarib, II) Idei, III) Charim, IV) Seorim, V) Mecha , VI) Miamin, VII) Kos, VIII) Abia, IX) Joshua, X) Seneca, XI) Eliasib, XII) Iakim, XIII) Occhoffa, XIV) Isbaal, XV) Belgium, XVI) Emmer, XVII) Chez, XVIII) Afessi, XIX) Fetaia, XX) Ezekil, XXI) Jachin, XXII) Gamoul, XXIII) Dalaia, XXIV) Maasai (the list in 1 Chr 24, 7-18). The second fact is that Zechariah then belonged to the "round of Abia, the eighth. The problem that arises is that Luke wrote this when the weather is still active, and then everyone could learn about its functions, and notes "when" was operating in the "round of Abia." Also, do not say which of the two annual rotations Zechariah received the announcement of the Angel in the sanctuary. It seems that over the centuries no one has taken care to bring back the memory, or to do some research. The same common mother, the Church of Jerusalem, Judeo-Christian Aramaic language, which traditionally (at least for two centuries) was led by the blood relatives of Jesus, James and his successors do not seem to be cured of this particular, that contemporaries went without saying. The "round of Abia" by a certain date in 1953 the great French specialist Annie Jaubert, in "Le calendrier des Jubilees et de la secta de Qumran. Bibliques Ses origines, "in" Vetus Testamentum ", Suppl. 3 (1953) pp. 250-264, had studied the calendar of the Book of Jubilees, a Jewish apocryphal very important, which dates from the late sec. II BC Now many snippets of that calendar, found in the caves of Qumran, showed not only that it was taken up by the Essenes who lived there (about sec. BC-II century. I AD), but it was still in use. This calendar is solar, and gives names to the months, but called them with the number of succession. The researcher had also published several other important articles on this, see also his voice "calendar of Qumran," in "Encyclopedia of the Bible" 2 (1969) pp. 35 to 38. And in a famous monograph, "La date de la Cene, liturgies Calendrier Biblique et chrétienne," Bibliques Études, Paris 1957, had also reconstructed the sequence of events of Holy Week, identifying in a convincing way (unless someone's dissent) on Tuesday, Thursday and not the date of the Lord's Supper. For its part, also specializes Shemarjahu Talmon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, worked on the documents of Qumran and the calendar of Jubilees, and was able to clarify the order of 24 rounds take place weekly priests in the temple, then still in function. The results were delivered in "The Calendar Reckoning of the Sect from the Judean Desert. Aspects of the Dead Sea Scrolls," in "Hierosolymitana Scripta, vol. IV, Jerusalem 1958, pp. 162-199; it comes from a thorough and important, but it must be said, passed almost unnoticed by the general circuit, but not Annie Jaubert. Now, the list indicates that Professor Talmon reconstructs the "round of Abia (Ab-Jah), prescribed for twice a year, occurred as follows: I) the first time, from 8 to 14 of the third month of the calendar and II) the second time from 24 to 30 of the eighth month of the calendar. Now according to the solar calendar (not the moon, as is the current Jewish calendar), this second time around is the last week of September. As also noted Ammassari Antonio, "Origins of the Christmas calendar," in "Euntes Docete" 45 (1992) pp. 11-16, Luke, with details on the "turn of Abia", dates back to a precious Judeo-Christian Jerusalem, which the narrator of accurate history (Luke 1, 1-4) has tracked, and offers the possibility of reconstructing some historical dates. Thus the Byzantine rite in the September 23 commemoration of the annunciation to Zechariah, and preserves a historic date certain, and almost precisely (perhaps with a decal of one or two days). Historical dates of the New Testament's main historical dating life of the Lord shall cover the main event: the resurrection in the unanimous report of the four Gospels (and the rest of the Apostolic Tradition of the New Testament, see 1 Cor 15, 3-7) came to ' dawn of Sunday, April 9 in the year 30 AD, some astronomical data, so that his death occurred at about 15 pm on Friday, April 7 of that year 30. According to the data obtained recent survey as mentioned above, is a network of other impressive historical dates. The cycle of John the Baptist has established the historical date (approximately) of 24 September in our Gregorian calendar year 7-6 a. C. for the divine message given to his father Zechariah. In the present task, it would fall by 1 a. C., but we know that from the sixth century there was an error of about six or five years on the actual date of the birth of the Lord. The birth of John the Baptist nine months later (Luke 1: 57-66) (approximately) June 24, is a historic day. But then, the cycle of Christ the Lord, that Luke puts in the form of a diptych with the mirror image of the Baptist, the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary of Nazareth "in the sixth month" after conception of Elizabeth (Luke 1, 28) appears to be another historic day. And accordingly, and finally, is a historic date to the birth of the Lord on Dec. 25, or 15 months after the announcement to Zacharias, nine months after the Annunciation to the Mother inviolate, six months after the birth of John the Baptist. The holy circumcision eight days after birth, according to the law of Moses (Lev 12, 1-3), is an historic day. And so, forty days after birth, Feb. 2, the "presentation" of the Lord to the temple again according to the law of Moses (Lev 12, 4-8), which marks the hypapantê, the meeting with his people, is an historic day. "Problems liturgical" The date of Christmas was around a cluster of problems. First is the fact that some churches are overlapping and sometimes confused with December 25 January 6, the day that the accumulated memory of the events surrounding the birth of the Savior. Then, most importantly, no clear distinction between memory of a fact, which can last for generations, about the devotion to this fact, which can be expressed with a non-liturgical worship, and the establishment of a party "liturgical" with its date and with a proper officiating, including the Liturgy of the Hours and the holy mysteries of the divine. Here goes the light, as it usually is neglected, the incredible memory of the Christian communities as to evangelical events, and places that saw their occurrence. The Annunciation, for example, was entered in the formulation of some "baptismal symbol" oldest already in the second century. It was performed in the same period in Christian primitive, as in the Catacombs of Priscilla. In Nazareth itself, as has been demonstrated beautifully the archeology, the site of the Annunciation was preserved and revered by the local community without interruption, and was visited by an uninterrupted flow of pilgrims, devotees, who down the centuries also left graffiti written and moving, to this day. When you start the worship liturgy "of the Mother of God, sent in the fifth century, there was the big party to liturgical dell'Euaggelismós, the annunciation to Mary. This acquired such an extraordinary resonance of the Fathers in the West ranks among the "dawn of our redemption" (with Christmas, the Magi and the wedding at Cana), and in the East was considered so solemn and almost overwhelming, that her date in the Byzantine rite abolishes even on Sundays and on Holy Thursday, Good Friday just gives, and if it falls on Sunday the celebration of the Resurrection divided so that half of the Canon celebrates Easter and half of the Canon of the Annunciation. In Bethlehem, even before the construction of the Basilica of Constantine (the first three decades of the fourth century), the Christian community had kept the memory and the veneration of the continuous rise of the birth of the Lord. In Egypt, the Coptic Church preserved with uninterrupted devotion the memory of places where the holy family stayed in his flight (Mt 2, 13-18), where churches were built even officiated. We can speak here of the holy places of Palestine, especially those of Jerusalem of the Anastasis, the Resurrection (so reductively called "holy tomb) and Golgotha, the Upper Room, the" Mount of Galilee "which is to Ascension of Gethsemane, Bethany, the Sheep's Pool (John 5, 1-9), where a church was built, the place of the "Dormition of the Mother of God in Kidron, and so on. On all these places there is a precious documentation, impressive and uninterrupted throughout the centuries to us, the pilgrims who visit us always with serious sacrifices and dangers, and left written accounts and descriptions of which were the object of veneration, of devotion and customs of the inhabitants and visitors. The problem of interest here is the choice of dates for the celebrations "liturgical" themselves. As for the celebration "liturgical" in the sense discussed above, the Lord, his ever-Virgin Mother of John the Baptist, the choices are not arbitrary, from ideologies or ingenious calculations? Do not think so. On September 23 and 24 June for the announcement and the birth of John the Baptist, and March 25 and December 25 for the Annunciation of the Lord and for his birth, were not arbitrary, and ideologies do not come from the carry-over . The churches had memories preserved unbroken, and when they decided to make him famous "liturgical" did nothing but punish the immemorial usage of popular devotion. It should be borne in mind also just noticed that the churches shall notify each "date" of their celebrations, and so for example the "testimony of the martyrs," they called the "birthplace of the martyrs" to the glory of heaven. For special occasions, such as the feasts of the Lord, the apostles, the martyrs, the holy bishops of local Churches, and also those from the fifth century of the Mother of God, the Church adopted welcomes suggestions from sister churches. In practice, almost all the great feasts of the Lord and the Mother of God come from the East Palestine, and were accepted with great enthusiasm from the churches of the Empire, and before the great schisms of the fifth century, Christians of the immense labor. Christmas, as it seems, came from Rome, and was accepted, albeit reluctantly, by all the Churches. With this, you want to say that the churches had the possibility of checks and verifications, and it must be said that our forefathers were not gullible, but often rightly suspicious, so as to reject any attempt of illegal and illegitimate cult "not proven" . The Evangelist Luke in all this no small part, when appropriate and skilled with hints refers to dates and places and events and people.

Can Hiv Rash Appear Alone

dominated culture. The ideologies of the '900 and their anti-Christian roots

cycle of meetings "Culture Dominated."

Friday, November 30, 21.00, at the hall of the church of St. Martin I Pope, via 37 Veii, near San Giovanni, Rome meeting on

ideologies of 900 and their roots anti-Christian

be speaking: - Adolfo Morganti , historian and essayist.

theme: "The history of the '900 has been largely the story of those ideologies, with the excuse to remove God have removed and imprisoned man and his nature. A story made of utopias and blood, and macabre Promethean dreams reality, which happens to be in his lucid and logical delirante.Per not forget. "

Link: http://www.identitaeuropea.org/iniziative/dominata08_02.html by:

- Ass Cult. "European Identity area Lazio ( http://www.identitaeuropea.org/ )

- Publishing House" The Circle "( http://www.ilcerchio.it/ )

- Library Coffee Literature "Aachen" (www.aquisgrana.org)