Hooey!?. These two words are immediately associated with Charles Dickens‘ fictional and immortal antihero Ebenezer Scrooge [1]. Scrooge was the prototype of the Grinch that stole Christmas [2], the paradigm of all skeptical men.
Let us all recognize that Ebenezer Scrooge was a petty, callous, selfish and cruel person. What is often lacking in our understanding of his character is that he was a profane par excellence. Oh, baby! It was his Victorian use of desecration.
- Not that any modern editor felt the need to remove Scrooge’s profphemas.
- His language is not the usual curse pattern.
- But it was profane for Scrooge to ridicule what was holy.
- He despised the holiness Noël.
- Il despised what was sacred.
- It escéptico.
- De the sublime.
Christmas is a party, in fact, the happiest party in the world. Party? [literally, holy day] because the day is sacred. It’s a day when business doesn’t open their doors, families gather, churches are full, and soldiers put down their arms for a 24-hour truce. [3] It’s a day like no other.
Each generation has its abundance of Scrooges. La church is full of them. We’ve heard countless complaints about commercialism. We are constantly told to bring Christ back to Christmas. We hear that Santa’s tradition is sacrilege. He knows the rumor in the story that Christmas is not biblical. “The Church invented Christmas to compete with the ancient Roman feast honoring the bull god Mitra,” is the objection of those who complain. Is this a mere abandonment to paganism?.
Therefore, we discourage the celebration of Jesus and avoid strongly getting involved in the happy anniversary. All of this is just a modern dose of scroogeism, our own hypocritical desecration of what is holy.
It is obvious that Christmas is commercial season, department stores are fully decorated, newspaper advertising pages are on the rise and we mark the number of shopping days left until Christmas, but why all this commerce?The high degree of trade at Christmas is motivated by one thing: buying gifts for others. Offering gifts to our friends and family is not an unpleasant and despicable addiction. This embodies the amorphous “Christmas spirit. ” Tradition is ultimately based on the supreme gift God has given to the world. God loved the world so much, says the Bible, that He gave his only Son. Offering gifts is a wonderful response to receiving such a gift. At least one day of the year, we savor the sweetness inherent in the truth that is more blessed to give than to receive.
“How about bringing Christ back to Christmas?”It’s just not necessary. Christ never left Christmas. ?Ringing the bell will never replace Happy Night. Our holiday, once known as Thanksgiving, quickly became known simply as “Peru Day”. But Christmas is still called Navidad. No is called “Gift Day. “Christ is always at Christmas and, for a brief moment, a secular world brings Christ’s message to all radio and television stations on earth. The church never has as much time to express themselves as during the Christmas season.
Not only music, but visual arts are present in abundance, bearing witness to the historical importance of Jesus’ birth. The Christmas presentations remind us of the world of the Holy Incarnation.
“Doesn’t Santa pay or at least not trivialize Christmas?Is this a myth, and does your own mythology cast a shadow over the grave historical reality of Jesus?I don’t think so. Myths are not necessarily bad or harmful. Every society creates myths. They are a particular art form that is usually invented to convey a message that people consider important. When a myth is conveyed as a real story, it’s a fraud. But when it has a different purpose, it can be healthy and healthy. Virtuous. Santa Claus is a mythical hero, not a villain. It is pure fiction, but a fiction used to illustrate a glorious truth.
“And the historical origins of Christmas as a substitute for a pagan feast?I can only say: it was good that the early Christians had the wisdom to flee Mitra and direct their zeal towards the celebration of the birth of Christ. Who currently associates Christmas with Mitra? Nobody calls it the Mitre Party.
We celebrate Christmas because we cannot eradicate our deep awareness of the difference between the sacred and the profane of our conscience. Man, in the generic sense, has an incurable propensity to delimit sacred space and time. When God appeared to Moses in the burning bush. , the land that was once common suddenly became unusual. Now it was the holy land, a sacred space. When Jacob awoke from his night vision of God’s presence, he oiled the rock on which his head rested; it was a holy place.
When God touches the earth, the place is holy. When God appears in history, time is holy, there has never been a holier place than the city of Bethlehem, where the Word became flesh, there was never a more sacred moment than on Christmas morning, when Immanuel was born. party. It is the most sacred of the sacred dates. We must heed Jacob Marley’s warning [4]: ”Don’t be a Scrooge?” In Christmas.
1: Ebenezer Scrooge is the main character in Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” story. Scrooge would later serve as inspiration for the creation of Walt Disney character “Tio Scrooge”, better known in Brazil. Scrooge is callous, greedy, greedy and expresses a particular displeasure with the holiday season. ?New Testament.
2: Reference to the film?How did the Grinch steal Christmas?, who tells the story of a green being, Grinch, who can’t stand the joy of Christmas and who, deciding to end the party, decides to invade the houses of the neighbors and steal Christmas gifts and ornaments?New Testament.
3: Reference to the “Christmas Truce”, which took place in the trenches near the city of Ypres, Belgium, on 24 and 25 1914, between German soldiers and their English and French rivals, during World War I. New Testament.
4: Jacob Marley is one of the characters from “A Christmas Carol”. Alert Scrooge to his stingy lifestyle; which, among other things, contributes to the transformation of Scrooge, who comes to love Christmas and to be generous to those who need it. It is said that no one celebrated Christmas more enthusiastically than after this change. ? NEW TESTAMENT.