Christmas in the only holiday that has a name for the day before. Why is that like that?
2006-12-23 15:32:14 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
Because of Catholicism.
At one time its Mass was a major event.
2006-12-23 15:35:43 · answer #1 · answered by AdamKadmon 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christmas is not the only Holiday with an "EVE": New Years Eve, Islamic New Years, Aashura, Purim, the Prophet Mohammed's Birthday, Passover, Shavuot, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, All Saint's Eve... heck I didn't list a FRACTION of the Catholic Holy Days...
The reason... well, Jewish Holy Days (hence Holiday) all begin at sundown the night prior. Christianity and the Catholic church co-opted the tradition / technique... begin your holiday with a feast.
Christmas Eve is celebrated because Mary & Joseph were looking around for a place to crash.. because Mary was about to give birth. And not long after midnight, settled into the stable, Mary gave birth to Jesus... later known as Christ.
Therefore we celebrate Christ's Mass (Christmas) EVE.
And to whomever made the BLONDE crack... I'm an old blonde man... I got the question right even though I'm Jewish AND Blonde !!
2006-12-24 00:06:12 · answer #2 · answered by mariner31 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, there is New years eve, you have heard of that, surely? How about the Eve of Easter, Valentine's Day, etc? The eve of Christmas is just extra special because of the anticipation of the following day I think. Merry Christmas, and Happy Christmas Eve, Eve! :)
2006-12-23 23:37:40 · answer #3 · answered by oceansnsunsets 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eve really comes from evening, which is when the Biblical day begins, and you can check page 1 of the Bible to see this.
Pagan days start at midnight.
Anyway enjoy:
CHRISTMAS IS LIKE SANTA CLAUS
You know the Fatman is a fake and a fat, white lie, but you go along with it anyway, as you deceive the kids and make them future liars to their own kids.
The Dictionary of the Bible says that: By the 5th. Century, the Church (of Rome) had concerned itself enough to have set December 25 as the date of Jesus’ birth. This had been the date of the Festival of the Sun God Zeus and to the Christians a greater light was come, Jesus Christ, the true light of the World.
Fact is - the Sun God is Zeus, and Jesus is really Jezeus, and the Romans worshipped Zeus, and you can see Barnabas being called Zeus by the Priests of Zeus in the Acts of the Apostles 14:12-13, in the Bible. Mithra was another son of Zeus, but Je-Zeus was Zeus come down as his own son, which made him strictly a Roman God.
Sunday is also the day that was set aside for worship of the Sun God (Zeus) by the Romans.
The Winter Solstice gives us the shortest day in the year, December 22, as the birth of the new Sun, so Rome shifted it to the 25 December in order to celebrate the Feast of the Circumcision eight days later, on 1 January, in accepting Jezeus Christos as the Living God of the Sun risen from the dead.
Zeus and the Fathers of Christianity did not know there was a Southern Hemisphere that did not share the Sun God Zeus or his four seasons, or his twelve disciples or twelve months of the year with the Northern Hemisphere, and it is for this reason that Australia celebrates Christmas twice each year, with the White Christmas falling in June but is called Christmas in July since they know it is a lie.
So Christmas and Christianity were as ignorant of the nature of the Planet as was Santa Claus of the South Pole, and just as the Pope was afraid that Christopher Columbus might fall off the flat Planet in his attempt to reach India traveling westwards, so were Santa Claus and Zeus afraid to go below the Planet and into the Fires of Hell.
When Pope John Paul ii declared the Shroud of Turin a medieval fake after having it scientifically carbon-dated in 1988, he failed to point out that the Bible describes the use of two shrouds, with one for the head and another for the “body” of the 100 lbs of aloes and myrrh, the other perfect hoax.
TRY SOME HONESTY THIS YEAR.
EXPOSE THE FRAUD OF SANTA THE UNHOLY.
BRING THE TRUTH OF THE MESSIAH FROM THE QURAN TO LIGHT SO THAT MEN WHO ARE BORN BLIND MIGHT SEE THAT THE ONE TRUE GOD CAN HAVE NO SON OR NO PARTNER
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HE IS ONE, HE ALWAYS WAS, HE IS, AND HE ALWAYS WILL BE!
PEACE ON EARTH AND GOODWILL TO ALL OF HUMANITY!
2006-12-24 03:34:59 · answer #4 · answered by mythkiller-zuba 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The way it started was, when Adam said to Eve, let's open our presents and Eve responded no, Adam.. tommorow is Christmas and Adam replied no today is Christmas Eve...Eve sighed and said I know that's what I've been trying to tell you.
2006-12-23 23:45:36 · answer #5 · answered by bonsai bobby 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
theres hallows eve, or halloween.
big holidays (halloween may not be big to you, but in paganism, its the biggest holiday in the year, the pagan new year) have eves...
yule and samhain are the 2 biggest holidays in the pagan holiday.
both of the holidays (christmas and halloween) came from paganism, so its merely a history thing.
theres also new years eve...
2006-12-23 23:36:50 · answer #6 · answered by jo_elizabeth2009 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
everyday has an "eve"
tonight is the eve for tomorrow
tuesday night will be the eve for next wednesday
christmas eve
new years eve
all hallows eve
an eve is simple the night before the day in fact
"evening" roots from the word "eve" :)
2006-12-23 23:42:44 · answer #7 · answered by xenon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not, haven't you ever heard of All Hallow's Eve or New Year's Eve?
2006-12-23 23:35:03 · answer #8 · answered by swarr2001 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it's not. there's All-hallow's eve and New Year's Eve.
2006-12-23 23:35:38 · answer #9 · answered by musicgirl31♫ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well they do have all hallows eve too....but that doesn't answer your question now does it... Sorry
2006-12-23 23:35:16 · answer #10 · answered by åߪõ£úţέ мåŷá 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋