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It ’s Christmas Time !

It ’s Christmas Time !. Introduction :. Christmas is the Christian festival that celebrates Jesus ’ birth. This is December 25. The term comes from the latin “ natalis ”, that means “ relating to the birth”.

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It ’s Christmas Time !

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  1. It’s Christmas Time!

  2. Introduction: Christmas is the Christian festival thatcelebratesJesus’ birth. ThisisDecember 25.

  3. The termcomesfrom the latin “natalis”, thatmeans “relatingto the birth”. In liturgicalcalendar Christmas is more importantthanAscension and Withsun, butitislessimportantthanEasterwhichis the mostimportantholyeventforevery Christian community. Howevereveryoneloves Santa Claus and people givelovelypresentstoeachother.

  4. Christmas traditions: Christmas tradition celebrate Jesus’ birth in Bethleem. We all know about the Holy Child and the Holy Stable.

  5. The Christian meaning of the feast is about the celebration of God’s presence. By Jesus’ birth, in fact, God isn’t a distant God any more, but he reveals him-self and enters the world until the end of times.

  6. The Christmas out of the Christianity: During the last century Christmas has carried on being a feast also for not-Christians: people feel Christmas time as a family feast, in which everyone has good feelings and loves each other : exchanging gifts is a way to show these good feelings.

  7. We can remember the Holy Crib, the Christmas tree, Santa Claus and the Advent calendar as symbols of a familiar and common tradition. The holy crib is a figurative reconstruction of Jesus’ birth. It is a very felt* tradition in Italy.

  8. The Christmas tree is a fir decorated with colored balls, lights and sweets. It goes back to a German tradition of 16th century.

  9. Santa Claus is an old man with a long white beard. He gives lovely gifts to all the children during all night, December,24th.

  10. Many Christmas traditions are connected to music, to particular plants (holly, mistletoe and Christmas star) and foods both sweets (cake made with candied fruit) and savory (stuffed pig’s trotter and a kind of pork sausage). There are manydifferencesbetweenoneregion and another.

  11. Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas!

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