It seems to me that all they would need to do is find a Biblical event to claim took place on that day.
2007-05-01 11:02:02 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
When I was at Lincoln Elementary School in Escondido, back in the 60s, they had May Day celebrations.
2007-05-01 11:08:56 · update #1
Krista P
The Solstice runs from the 21 to the 25. You can't have the Solstice on a specific day each year because it is the shortest day of the year, which is a different day each year over a five year cycle. Before calling people names you need to learn some facts.
2007-05-01 11:12:56 · update #2
That's a communist holiday and no good red blooded American christian is going to celebrate one of them commy days.
2007-05-01 11:06:14 · answer #1 · answered by nikola333 6 · 0⤊ 5⤋
Good question!
I went to Catholic school in the late 60's, early 70's and I remember them having the May Day procession each year. It was my favorite when I was a little girl and a very big deal. It was very heavily entwined with worship of the Blessed Mother.
What was also very interesting about it was it was a girl's holiday, in that girls got to have all the 'fun'. All the girls of the school would lead the procession and we all got new spring gowns for the day, and all had flower wreathes in our hair. We'd practice for weeks lining up according to age with the oldest girls first. Leading the procession would be the oldest girls, carrying the platform with the statue of Mary.
It was a primarily Catholic neighborhood, so this was a big event each year, and everyone would come out en mass to watch the procession and throw flowers, flower petals, etc.
Just my opinion, but I think it would be the specific worship of Mary that has kept this one from becoming a integrated holiday, and kept it as more of a Catholic centered holiday.
But even that seems to be fading. I'm not a practicing Catholic any longer so I don't know if Catholic schools still make such a big deal out of it. I know there are two large parochial schools near me and I never see the large processions that I remember from my childhood. (That's kind of sad)
2007-05-02 07:57:21 · answer #2 · answered by Theresa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker in the Catholic calendar. Does that count? Cross-quarter days don't always get covered in the Christian calendar. Since it's supposed to be in chronological order, they'd have to come up with something that biblically came up between Easter and the Ascension.
Note: Labor Day developed in America as a commemoration of the deaths in the Haymarket protests in Chicago in 1886. Originally on May 1st, it was transferred to September after Socialists appeared to be taking it over. (American businesses didn't like its adversarial tone.)
2007-05-01 18:26:13 · answer #3 · answered by skepsis 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am a Christian. By that I mean that I am a believer in and a follower of the teachings of Christ. I state that fact so you will have no doubt as to the context of my answer.
Church's make holidays...religions...make holidays. Man made churches...and Man made religions.
God and Jesus are not a church or a religion. They are the living creator of the universe and His only begotten Son. True believers do not follow a religion...they follow God/Jesus.
2007-05-01 18:08:57 · answer #4 · answered by Poohcat1 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only thing I can think of is that May Day (or Beltaine as it's better known) is all about sex for the sake of sex and the spiritual connection through that union. The catholic church has always been against sex for its own sake.
Krista, DO SOME RESEARCH!!! Christmas IS YULE. Christianity changed Yule, Ostara, Imbolc, and Mabon into their own personal holidays and demonized the pagans who worshiped them first...surprise surprise.
2007-05-01 18:15:12 · answer #5 · answered by lupinesidhe 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
So this is why the Jehovah's Witnesses do not celebrate any holidays. I hadn't thought of that.
2007-05-09 18:13:09 · answer #6 · answered by Chloe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are an idiot the winter solstice (THERS TWO WINTER AND SUMMER!) is December 21 and Christmas is December 25 idiot! So Christmas can't be just the solstice turned into Christmas.
2007-05-01 18:08:33 · answer #7 · answered by Krista P 2 · 0⤊ 6⤋
I thought they just lumped it all together and called it 'easter'
2007-05-09 18:13:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you ready to lead this campaign I didn't think JW believed in that. ha
2007-05-01 18:11:25 · answer #9 · answered by j.wisdom 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No pagan history that I'm aware of.
2007-05-01 18:06:29 · answer #10 · answered by Mr. E 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋