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| An Advent Calendar from 1903 |
Apparently Advent Calendars first came into use by German Lutherans in the 19th Century, but are now pretty widely spread around the Christian World, indeed I am sure that many are in homes that are in no way overtly Christian. A bit like Christmas Trees and Father Christmas they seem to have spread around the World and got increasingly separated from the meaning of Christmas.
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| And something a bit more modern |
I know that Yule was celebrated way before the birth of Christ, I know that Christ was probably not born in December, and that the early Church attached the festival of Christmas to the existing celebrations. So maybe I shouldn't complain when people are celebrating with no thought given to Jesus, but I will be trying to remember him throughout my celebrations, even if I do end up with a tree or other gewgaws, eating and drinking too much and being generally self indulgent.
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