If we listed the Christian holidays we lose the account, and above all we lose the sense of things. We would end that is cast into a world full of abstractions and continuous ...
... from birth and death and resurrection of a man who actually is God, the Annunciation of the pregnant by an angel, the Assumption of the mother to the skies, the exemption from original sin of the same mother and her virginity which continued even after the birth (this is the real news!), the descent of the Spirit upon the Apostles, Pentecost, until Holy Thursday, Ash Wednesday, to Friday of passion in the celebration of All Saints and Holy Trinity and many others, more or less. Continuous occurrences of facts or events that never took place or mental processes with no relation to reality.
... from birth and death and resurrection of a man who actually is God, the Annunciation of the pregnant by an angel, the Assumption of the mother to the skies, the exemption from original sin of the same mother and her virginity which continued even after the birth (this is the real news!), the descent of the Spirit upon the Apostles, Pentecost, until Holy Thursday, Ash Wednesday, to Friday of passion in the celebration of All Saints and Holy Trinity and many others, more or less. Continuous occurrences of facts or events that never took place or mental processes with no relation to reality.
Finally, any saint or martyr, he devotes his party when the calendar becomes the celebrated is also "patron saint" of some city or association or body over which it must watch.
The traditional practice of seizure of another part of the Christian holidays have already been written so many pages that it is useless to come back to it. It seems more interesting to make a comparison with the Jewish holidays; is one of many that you can do, but this is useful to distinguish Jewish from Christian thought, whose roots can be common forget the important ideological differences.
One suggestion comes from the philologist Giovanni Semeria The origins of European culture, Vol I, p. 162: "... the great Jewish feast represent a well-deserved rest after the labors of agriculture and pastoralism: the end of the harvest coincides with Pentecost, the feast of" tabernacles "or" huts "with the end of the harvest and collection of fruit, Easter is the celebration of the beginning of the harvest early this year ...".
The Jewish holidays on the contrary of those Christians are not numerous. A brief description that highlights the traditional characters, so closely linked - with few exceptions - the reality of the relationship with nature or history the Jewish people.
Rosh Hashanah
"head of the year", is the feast that marks the beginning of the Jewish year , and falls between late September and 1 October. E 'defined as the day (defined from sunset to sunset) when the first crescent moon appears. When the Temple still existed observers were scanning the sky from high places in order to see this appear sickle, and carried the news in Jerusalem at the earliest possible.
In the religious tradition there celebrates the completion of the creation of the universe and the acceptance of the sovereignty of God over the world are also the day of contrition for sins committed during the year and make good New Year's resolutions.
The days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are called "Ten Days of Atonement" and ends on the Day of Atonement.
Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)
Yom Kippur is the holiest and most important holiday of the Jewish calendar. To merit the forgiveness, the day is dedicated spiritual atonement, and the intention to start the new year with a clear conscience. The idea of \u200b\u200bpurification is expressed in the jejunum, which observant Jews practice the night of the festivities until evening later. At the time of the Jerusalem Temple the High Priest laid his hands on the scapegoat by transferring to it all the sins of the people away and then toward the desert.
The beginning of the year clearly stems from the need to count the time in a seasonal rhythm from the late summer and early autumn. What is the beginning of the new process the "sins" and make good resolutions for the coming year does not appear to specifically religious practice, and nor is the practice of 'cleaning' through fasting, custom which is an in cultural environments that do not provide the mortification of the body. The religious aspect is rather the acceptance of divine sovereignty and transcendence in his work of creation. It 's interesting to note that the new idea of \u200b\u200ba' scapegoat 'to divert the blame and then get rid of, had taken the place of human sacrifice probably widespread in ancient Mesopotamia. The rejection of this practice is the biblical story of the 'Sacrifice of Isaac' when God is now certainly the obedience of Abraham, he stops her hand.
Sukkot
also called "Feast of Tabernacles " or " of Tabernacles." It 's a very joyous day that once celebrated the harvest and the end of the agricultural year. In fact, another name for Sukkot is "Festival Harvest ", held in autumn after the summer harvest and before sowing crops for the winter. Remember where the huts the Israelites lived in the desert during the exodus, after their flight from Egypt.
Channukah
It 's a feast of biblical origin which commemorates the Maccabean revolt, that is traditionalists against the impositions of the Israelites Seleucid rulers (the successors of Alexander the Great in Syria-Palestine) who tried to impose the worship of Greek gods, with a statue of Jupiter the Temple of Jerusalem. This act triggered the revolt was successful and ended with the re-purification of the Temple of Jerusalem in 164 BC It is now a festival with an exchange of gifts, joyful atmosphere and the lighting of candles.
Purim
With the destruction of the First Temple began his exile in Babylon. Shortly after, the Persians conquered Babylon and allowed the Jews to return and restore their national and religious life. During these years, Prime Minister of King Ahasuerus (Xerxes or Artaxerxes), Haman, decided to eliminate all Jews. Haman drew lots for the day when he realized his project, hence the name of Purim, which means fate . Meanwhile, a Jewish woman, Esther, was chosen among the finest in the kingdom to be the new queen and interceded on behalf of his people to the king, saving it. The very joyous festival, carnival, recalls the action of the legendary Queen Esther.
Pesach (Passover)
It 's a spring festival, which celebrates the rise of the flock with the new born and the beginning of the harvest of cereals. It 's a major holiday and also recalls the flight of Jews from Egypt. Formerly, all the people went on pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
Shavuot (Weeks)
Also known as Pentecost as occurs fifty days after Easter. Anciently celebrated by thanking the end of the harvest. Remember also the giving of the Torah to Moses at Sinai.
Tu B'Shvat
Even this is not a commemoration of biblical origin, but a celebration of agricultural origin: a Its other name is in fact the New Year of Trees. With the beginning of the Diaspora came to symbolize the bond between the Jewish people and the land of Israel.
Tisha B'Av
Remember both the destruction of the First Temple by the Babylonians who carried out the Second Temple by the Romans. Remember the expulsion of Jews from Spain.
From these descriptions you can see how the strokes are very few religious, and many more links to the actual or fictionalized history of the Jewish people that usually flank or overlap a feast of clear natural agro-pastoral.
Overall appears that a strong tendency to concreteness of relationship with nature and history than a spiritualization most abstract of Christian thought, someone wants to show how a process 'evolution' of human beings, according to the logic that sees in the reality of the matter a 'minus' in opposing the 'plus' spirit. Personally I still think that the 'plus' the spirit is only a trivial, and perhaps dangerous, loss of touch with reality.
Interestingly, for the purposes of the above, the chapter on "holidays" of the test
institutions, practices, beliefs, Jewish Andrea Nicolotti.
Here: http://www.christianismus.it/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=15&page=8
Overall appears that a strong tendency to concreteness of relationship with nature and history than a spiritualization most abstract of Christian thought, someone wants to show how a process 'evolution' of human beings, according to the logic that sees in the reality of the matter a 'minus' in opposing the 'plus' spirit. Personally I still think that the 'plus' the spirit is only a trivial, and perhaps dangerous, loss of touch with reality.
Interestingly, for the purposes of the above, the chapter on "holidays" of the test
institutions, practices, beliefs, Jewish Andrea Nicolotti.
Here: http://www.christianismus.it/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=15&page=8
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