What is the meaning of Christmas?

Answer 1

A lot of meanings:

1)Most wonderful time,Little baby Jesus was born in a manger.
2)To give and not receiving.
3)To spend time with your friends and family.
4)Santa Clause give presents to good childen on Christmas Eve.
5)Enjoy drinking hot cocoa and gingerbread.

Answer 2

to all those who say jesus was born may i lorl (laf oud really loud) at your stupidity jesus was born mid year read your bible get your answers there.

the real meaning of christmas is greed and ignorance.

greed. we must have everything and totally pig out.

ignorance of what is going on in the world around and taking for granted that everyone is having a great time just because its christmas.

THIS CHRISTMAS HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL SPARE A THOUGHT FOR THOSE THAT WILL BE FORGOTTEN WITH EVERY MOUTHFUL OF THERE XMAS DINNER(THIS ISNT ABOUT AFRICA IT HAPPENS RIGHT HERE AT HOME THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE DONT KNOW THE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS BECAUSE THEY HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED IT) christmas should be a time of thanks and reflection. thanks for what you have and the fact that it coulkd be a lot worse. this xmas day go to a room in your house stay there for as long as you can dont see anyone for aslong as possible(see how you feel after an hour or so i bet you wouldnt last ten minutes before you want to go and enjoy the fun and games that xmas should bring) for some people christmas is about reminders of maybe no family and of friends who couldnt careless that not everyone enjoys or even looks forward to xmas for its not ten minutes or a few hours it can be days even a full week where no one even thinks of those less fortunate and that can be the loneliest week in the year for many. so this christmas if you know someone who is on there own give them a call you never know you just might give them the best xmas present they have had in there life. THATS WHAT XMAS SHOULD BE ABOUT. the best excuse ever is i never thought and thats ment to make you feel better i heard that excuse from the same people for 15 years so dont think about this year do it make some ones day or it might just make there year. HAPPY XMAS AND AN EVEN HAPPIER NEW YEAR.

Answer 3

It marks the return of the Sun. Although 25th Dec no longer exactly matches the longest night (Because the calendar has been mucked about with so much!) it was originally the point in the year when the nights stopped getting shorter and started getting longer again, in other words, the sun-god has won his battle in the underworlds and starts to grow stronger.
Many cultures regarded this point in the year as being very significant - it was considered to be the birthday of Osiris, Apollo, Mithras and many others.
Naturally, when the Christian faith came into the ascendancy, they claimed the existing festival for themselves, and associated it with their own sun god/saviour myth.
It is, when all's said and done, a very logical time to have a party - it goes right back to primeval times, when surviving the winter was no joke. It is basically saying 'we've got through the worst of it, things start to lighten up from here on'!

Answer 4

Expert: Carol Pozefsky
Date: 12/17/2003
Subject: Christmas

Question
Hi Carol
I am interested in finding out where the word "Christmas" originated and also the word "mass" in refence to Christmas.
Thanks for your help
Hannah

Answer
Hello and thank you for your question,
The word Christ stems from the Middle and Old English word Crist meaning the anointed one, the Lord's Anointed. It is borrowed from the Latin Christus and from the Greek Christos also meaning the anointed one. The Greek is a translation of Hebrew mashiah meaning anointed of the Lord or Messiah. In the word Christmas, the suffix mas evolves from the Old English word maesse meaning festival, feast day or mass.
The best to you always, Carol P.
http://experts.about.com/q/Etymology-Meaning-Words-1474/Christmas.htm

Answer 5

It's a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.
It is a time of generosity and good will toward all mankind.
It's a time for family, friends, good food and presents.
There's just a good mood that is all around, and of course lots of twinkly lights too :)

Answer 6

You have to ask that?

I am so sorry for you if you have to ask that.

I'm an adult, married, no kids, and love Christmas.

A chance to give, receive, and relax.

Snow, wind and rain?

What more could you want?

Snuggle up, or single go out then snuggle up!!

Enjoy Christmas, and give it your own meaning.

Xxxxxxxx.

Answer 7

Christmas, the annual festival of Christ's birth. Christmas Day falls on December 25 and celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem as recounted in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. It is, after Easter, the most important feast in the Church's year. Since the Gospels make no mention of dates, it is not certain that Christ was born on this day. In fact, Christmas Day did not officially come into being until 354 when Pope Gregory proclaimed December 25 as the date of the Nativity. In doing so, he was following the early Church's policy of absorbing rather than repressing existing pagan rites which, since early times, had celebrated the winter solstice and the coming of spring.

The pagan festival most closely associated with the new Christmas was the Roman Saturnalia, which honoured the god of the harvest, Saturn, on December 19 and was marked by seven days of riotous merrymaking and feasting. At the same time in northern Europe a similar winter festival known as Yule was celebrated in which giant logs, trimmed with greenery and ribbons, were burnt in honour of the gods and to encourage the sun to shine more brightly.

Having incorporated these elements, the Christian Church subsequently added, in the Middle Ages, the Nativity crib and Christmas carols to its customs. By this time lavish feasting was the highlight of the festivities with large quantities of food, including a decorated boar's head, ceremoniously consumed over eight or nine hours by rich and poor alike. All this came to an abrupt end in Britain at least when in 1652 the Puritans banned Christmas, a move followed in Massachusetts seven years later. Although Christmas returned to England in 1660 with Charles II, the rituals all but died out until revived in Victorian times.

Christmas as we know it today is thus a 19th-century invention. The decorated Christmas tree, common in German countries for centuries, was introduced to Britain by Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's Consort. Carols were revived and many new ones written, often to traditional melodies. The custom of carol-singing, although with ancient origins, dates mainly from the 19th century. Christmas crackers were invented in the late 19th century by an enterprising English baker, Tom Smith, who, by 1900, was selling 13 million worldwide each year, and Christmas cards only became commonplace in the 1870s, although the first one was produced in London in 1846. The familiar image of Santa Claus, complete with sled, reindeers, and sack of toys, is an American invention which first appeared in a drawing by Thomas Nast in Harper's Magazine in 1868, although the legend of Father Christmas is ancient and complex, being partly derived from St Nicholas and a jovial medieval figure, the “spirit of Christmas”. In Russia, he traditionally carries a pink piglet under his arm.

Today, Christmas is as much a secular festival as a religious one. It is a time of great commercial activity and for present-giving, family reunions and, in English-speaking countries, a “traditional” Christmas meal of turkey or goose, Christmas pudding, and mince pies. Midnight mass is celebrated in churches and cathedrals in the West. In many countries, including Germany, the custom of lighting the tree, singing carols around it, and opening presents is celebrated on December 24, Christmas Eve.

Answer 8

What it means today in this greedy world we live in or what it should mean?

Answer 9

its the most wonderful time of the year,,, jesus was born !

Answer 10

simple the birth of christ our saviour Jesus