2006-12-06 06:23:45 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, it was....and Yes, I did.
I will celebrate the Mass for the Feast tonight at 7:30 P.M. - and I sent an e-mail to 200 people reminding them of the Feast Day for the Great Nicholas, Bishop of Myra!
Saint Nicholoas, ora pro nobis.
2006-12-06 06:26:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Epiphany, January 6, was actually the first major Christian gift-giving holiday. If you recall, that's the celebration of the arrival of the wise men and their gifts of gold, frankincense, myrrh.
When the calendar was reformed, the practice moved to the feast of the Nativity, Christmas, on December 25. So we give gifts on the first day of Christmas, rather than on the twelfth day of Christmastide.
As for St. Nicholas' feast, My mom would put chocolate gold-wrapped coins in our shoes when we kids were little, even though we Irish-Americans don't have connections to cultures with more devotion to St. Nick.
St. Nicholas is neat. He saved women from prostitution and beat up the heresiarch Arius. Have you beaten an Arian today?
2006-12-06 06:44:22 · answer #2 · answered by Blaargh_42 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am Catholic--I did not personally do anything. However, I also teach at a Catholic grade school. We have a traditon of putting the kids' shoes out and the principal mangaes to get a hold of Saint Nick and he comes around and fills them up. The kids are quite excited when they see him outside the classroom door.
2006-12-06 07:31:55 · answer #3 · answered by beckychr007 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes,we buy small gifts,in very lightly paper. That open our hearts for love and for help the mens who need it.
With those open hearts,we wait the born of Jesus and we think about the time when Saint Mary, in Bethleem,loocked after a place, where She can born Jesus, and nobody give to Her a place in their house, only a familly called....(.Craciun.)...gived to Saint Mary and Joseph a place in an shed,where Jesus was born,in an simple place,at the worm of animales.
2006-12-06 06:41:34 · answer #4 · answered by mirna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't do anything special. But it is not the first gif-giving feast by a long shot. Pagans were giving each other Saturnalia presents at least a thousand years earlier.
2006-12-06 06:29:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I am no longer Catholic, but we still celebrate St. Nicholas day at our house. I gave candy and treats to my daughter and exchange (from Germany) student this morning as it is a tradition she is used to.
2006-12-06 06:26:39 · answer #6 · answered by harpertara 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dressed up like st. nicolas (more like santa) for my kids they were happy but my youngest was scared and so was my dog.. but we gave the kids candy and stuff and it's all good... the dressing up was my wifes idea.
2006-12-06 06:34:39 · answer #7 · answered by STAR POWER=) 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I didn't even know it was the feast day of St. Nicholas. Thanks for the reminder.
No, I am not going to hell over it.
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2006-12-06 06:29:04 · answer #8 · answered by Br. Dymphna S.F.O 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, I gave a basket of fruit to my aunt.
2006-12-06 06:26:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋