But they call it Christ Mass....

 

 

The mass is at once a memorial and a sacrifice. In the eucharistic prayer, the church commemorates Jesus Christ and his redeeming work, especially his sacrifice for the sake of all humankind through his crucifixion. The church also recalls the origin of the Eucharist in the Last Supper, when Jesus, anticipating his imminent death, offered his disciples bread and wine, saying, “Take this, all of you, and eat of it, for this is my body, which will be given up for you,” and, “Take this, all of you, and drink from it, for this is the chalice of my blood,…which will be poured out for you.” Jesus instructed the disciples to perpetuate this banquet in his memory.

 

I have not Celebrated or Participated in X-Mas since 1982.

(40 years) My reasons: # 1 I don't like being lied to... and I cannot teach my family lies. We figured for all the Material Gifts exchanged on Dec 25th, we could reserve the revelry for the January sale outs...

 

1a. Mithra, god of the sun, was born on December 25, day of the winter solstice. On the night of 24 to 25 December it is celebrated in the West the birth of Christ. But it was not always so and today it is not in the whole Christian world; until the fourth century it was celebrated on January 6 and it continues so in the east, among the Orthodox.

The winter solstice occurs on December 25th; It is the time when in the northern hemisphere the days are shorter and the nights are longest. But from this moment the day begins to grow and "dies natalis solis invicti" “the birthday of the unconquered sun", is celebrated on this day .

That invincible sun is the god Mithra, whose worship and devotion competed with Christianity with which has certain similarities.

 

2. Christmas time is the most likely time of the year to experience depression. 

 

3. The suicide rate is higher during December than any other month,

 

4. Shoplifting traditionally increases during holiday season, along with arrests

 

5. Christmas the deadliest day of the year: study https://nationalpost.com/.../christmas-the-deadliest-day.../

 

6. The "golden quarter", that is, the three months of October through December is the quarter of the year in which the retail industry hopes to make the most profit for the year. 

 

6a. More than half of shoppers are going into debt this holiday season, study findsMore than half of shoppers are going into debt this holiday season, study finds https://www.cnbc.com/.../holiday-shopping-2021-more-than...

 

7. “Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not.” (Jeremiah 10:2-5)

 

The “Christmas Tree” finds it’s beginning at Babylon as the Ashtaroth (the female moon deity represented as a tree). Upon the expulsion of this sun and moon (Baal and groves) worship from Babylon, the “seat of Satan” relocated at Pergamos. Attalus III died and left his Chaldean system of magic and superstition to Rome by will and testament. Upon organizing the Romanist “church”, Constantine not only implemented the Chaldean system of Sun and Moon worship into his “church”, he adapted their annual 7 day festival of drunken revelry and riotous immorality. This festival, called The Saturnalia, was given the name of Christmas within the “church”. The Astarte (grove – Ashtaroth – Venus) or “Christmas Tree” was an integral part of this festival.

From The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop: