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The Nativity of Christ is a three-day celebration: the formal title of the first day is " The Nativity According to the Flesh of our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ ", and celebrates not only the Nativity of Jesus, but also the Adoration of the Shepherds of Bethlehem and the arrival of the Maji ; the second day is referred to as the " Synaxis of the Theotokos ", and commemorates the role of the Virgin Mary in the Incarnation ; the third day is known as the " Third Day of the Nativity ", and is also the feast day of the Protodeacon and Protomartyr Saint Stephen.
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Saint Paul viewed the Nativity of Jesus as an event of cosmic significance which by the Incarnation of Christ brought forth a new world of harmony to undo the damage caused by the fall of the first man, Adam.
In the 2nd century, with his theory of " recapitulation ", Saint Irenaeus connected " Christ the Creator " with " Christ the Savior ", relying on (" when the times reach their fulfillment – to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ ") to gather together and wrap up the cycle of the Nativity and Resurrection of Christ.
( nach Christus / Christi Geburt, after Christ / the Nativity of Christ ); the use of this convention was already prescribed in Nazi Germany.
Nativity scene at the Christ the King Church in Sanok
The origin of the badnjak is explained by events surrounding the Nativity of Jesus Christ.
The Nativity Fast ( Winter Lent ) is a time of preparation for the Feast of the Nativity of Christ ( Christmas ), but whereas Advent in the West lasts only four weeks, Nativity Fast lasts a full forty days.
These are: the week following Pascha, the week following Pentecost, the period from the Nativity of Christ until January the 5th and the first week of the Triodion ( the week following the 33rd Sunday after the Pentecost ).
* Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ( December 25 )
Thus Andrew Lloyd Webber created two popular musicals, Jesus Christ Superstar and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which filled traditional biblical stories with modern-day sensibilities ; and on a similar note, Catherine Hardwicke's The Nativity Story shows a field of maize-corn in a Nazareth farming scene.
File: France Paris St-Denis Basilica Nativity. jpg | Detail from the 12th-c. Life of Christ window
In the Slavic usage this Kathisma is also read from the apodosis of the Exaltation of the Cross up to the forefeast of the Nativity of Christ, and from the apodosis of Theophany up to the Sunday of the Prodigal Son.
St. Hippolytus of Rome ( d. 235 ) sought to demonstrate that " the Ark was a symbol of the Christ who was expected ", stating that the vessel had its door on the east side – the direction from which Christ would appear at the Second Coming – and that the bones of Adam were brought aboard, together with gold, frankincense and myrrh ( the symbols of the Nativity of Christ ).
The 25 December Nativity of Christ was attested very early by Hippolytus of Rome ( 170 – 236 ) in his Commentary on Daniel 4: 23: “ The first coming of our Lord, that in the flesh, in which he was born at Bethlehem, took place eight days before the calends of January, a Wednesday, in the forty-second year of the reign of Augustus, 5500 years from Adam .” Another early source is Theophilus Bishop of Caesarea ( 115-181 ):" We ought to celebrate the birth-day of our Lord on what day soever the 25th of December shall happen.
It is a retelling of the story of Jesus Christ, from the Nativity through the Resurrection.
This is illustrated in Orthodox icons of the Nativity, on which the Christ Child is wrapped in swaddling clothes reminiscent of his burial wrappings.
The facade as a relief of the transfiguration of Christ and the east nave is dedicated to the sheepherders and Wise Men of the Nativity.
* Nativity scene, a group of figures arranged to represent the birth of Jesus Christ
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Bethlehem's chief economic sector is tourism which peaks during the Christmas season when Christian pilgrims throng to the Church of the Nativity.
Among the special tasks carried out i private homes during Advent ( a time of waiting for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus ) is the baking of the Christmas piernik ( gingerbread ), and the making of Christmas decorations.
The Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches celebrate the feast day of the " Holy Righteous Prophet and King David " on the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers ( two Sundays before the Great Feast of the Nativity of the Lord ), when he is commemorated together with other ancestors of Jesus.
He is also commemorated on the Sunday after the Nativity, together with Joseph and James, the Brother of the Lord.
He is also known for his love of the Eucharist, his sorrow during the Stations of the Cross and for the creation of the Christmas creche or Nativity Scene.
Other passages, however, conflict with the teachings of the Qur ' an — as, for instance, in the account of the Nativity, where Mary is said to have given birth to Jesus without pain or as in Jesus's ministry, where he permits the drinking of wine and enjoins monogamy — though the Qur ' an acknowledges each prophet had a set of their own laws that might differ in some aspects from each other.
* The gospel of John gives no account of the Nativity of Jesus, unlike those of Matthew and Luke, and his mother's name is never given.
He is also commemorated on the Sunday of the Holy Fathers ( the Sunday before the Nativity of the Lord ).
Baldung's most sustained effort is the altarpiece of Freiburg, where the Coronation of the Virgin, and the Twelve Apostles, the Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity and Flight into Egypt, and the Crucifixion, with portraits of donors, are executed with some of that fanciful power that Martin Schongauer bequeathed to the Swabian school.
His feast day is celebrated on the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers ( two Sundays before the Great Feast of the Nativity of the Lord ).
* 1100: On December 25, Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned as the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
* The Church of the Nativity is built in Bethlehem.
1530 ) is one of several works of Nativity of Jesus in art | art concerning the Navity of Jesus.
* The Samaritans revolt and are defeated ; the Church of the Nativity is burnt down during the uprising.
* The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, is rebuilt until 565.
* In many western churches, violet is the liturgical color of Advent and Lent, which respectively celebrate the expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus and the time for Penance and / or Mourning.
The best known pageant in the Towneley manuscript is The Second Shepherds ' Pageant, a burlesque of the Nativity featuring Mak the sheep stealer and his wife Gill, which more or less explicitly compares a stolen lamb to the Saviour of mankind.
The Nativity Façade is dedicated to his birth ; it also has a cypress tree which symbolizes the tree of life.
Chambers Protestant Chapel of the Nativity of Our Lord is the spiritual home for the Village ’ s Protestant youth.
The Church of the Nativity is a basilica located in Bethlehem, Palestinian territories, and is considered to be the oldest continuously operating Christian church in the world.
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The Eastern Orthodox Church liturgical calendar begins on 1 September – proceeding annually from the Nativity of the Theotokos to the celebration of Jesus ' birth in the winter ( Christmas ), through his death and resurrection in the spring ( Pascha / Easter ), to his Ascension and the Assumption of his mother ( Dormition of the Theotokos / Virgin Mary ) in the summer.
The cry " Great Pan is dead " has appealed to poets, such as John Milton, in his ecstatic celebration of Christian peace, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity line 89, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and the character Grover in the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan as he desperately searches the world for any sign that Pan might still be alive.
Advent, anglicized from the Latin word meaning " coming ", is a season observed in many Western Christian churches, a time of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus at Christmas.
During the forty days leading up to Christmas, the Eastern Orthodox Church practices the Nativity Fast, while the majority of Christian congregations ( including the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, many Mainline churches, and Baptists ) begin observing the liturgical season of Advent four Sundays before Christmas — both are seen as times of spiritual cleansing, recollection and renewal to prepare for the celebration of the birth of Jesus.
The Chronography of 354 illuminated manuscript compiled in Rome includes an early reference to the celebration of a Nativity feast.
He was a teacher at the Cathedral school there, he was responsible for the advancement of the celebration of the Feast day of “ Nativity of the Virgin ”, and he was responsible for one of the many reconstructions of the Cathedral.
Fulbert ’ s most famous sermon is “ Approbate Consuetudinis ” in which he provides the information in regards to the importance of the celebration of the “ Feast of Mary ’ s Nativity ”.
In 385, the pilgrim Egeria ( also known as Silvia ) described a celebration in Jerusalem and Bethlehem, which she called " Epiphany " ( epiphania ) that commemorated the Nativity of Christ.
Even before the year 354, the Western Church had separated the celebration of the Nativity of Christ as the feast of Christmas and set its date as December 25 ; it reserved January 6 as a commemoration of the manifestation of Christ, especially to the Magi, but also at his baptism and at the wedding feast of Cana.
If this is a reference to a celebration of Christ's birth, as well as of his baptism, on 6 January, it corresponds to what continues to be the custom of the Armenian Apostolic Church, which celebrates the birth of Jesus on 6 January of the calendar used, calling the feast that of the Nativity and Theophany of Our Lord.
During the weekdays of Great Lent and certain days during the lesser Lenten seasons ( Nativity Fast, Apostles ' Fast, and Dormition Fast ), the celebration of the Divine Liturgy on weekdays is not permitted.
According to the official position of the Romanian Orthodox Church, the customs actually relate to the celebration of Saint John the Baptist's Nativity, which also happens on June 24.
The Roman Chronography of 354 then included an early reference to the celebration of a Nativity feast in December, as of the fourth century.
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