Days and months are named after (pagan) gods, while our years are numbered after the birth of Christ.
Peter Kearney, spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church, said that Christmas should be about celebrating the birth of Christ.
Wine consumption may or may not have divine sanction in Georgia, but its production here goes back much earlier than the birth of Christ.
"It just says everything that Christmas is about: the birth of Christ and what we all do in church and out of church, " she says.
Other Proms highlights include a series of concerts devoted to Christian music, under the theme God and Music, in celebration of the 2, 000th anniversary of the birth of Christ.
It captures beautifully the emotional crossover from the ancient sacred story of the birth of Christ to the everyday world in which we live, where it is sung in remembrance and celebration.
Christians around the world are celebrating Christmas, which marks the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem.
"Millennial festivities would not even exist were it not for the Gregorian calendar structured around the birth of Jesus Christ, " said the writer, who pointed out that China had its own well-established dating system centuries before the Western one went into effect.
Before the Revolution, Russia had not yet adopted the Gregorian calendar, introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 to mitigate the errors of the Julian calendar, which owes its name to the Roman emperor who had chosen it 46 years before the birth of Jesus Christ.
He said many of those who put themselves down at Christian did so because they thought of themselves "as a good person" rather than due to belief in the virgin birth, or of Jesus Christ as the son of God.
With those kinds of interpretive gestures, the Trinity performers constructed the architecture of the oratorio, tracing the birth, death and resurrection of Christ.
One of Christianity's most holy places, the site's focal point is the Grotto of the Nativity, a rectangular cavern beneath the church that has been considered the site of Christ's birth since at least the 2nd century.
Christ came to comfort the poor and the sick and the essence of Christmas is a new birth.
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