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Why Christmas is not Pagan
Fr. Geoff Harvey16 Dec 2018 - 9:00pm

An increasing number of Christians have come to believe that Christmas is derived from paganism. They’ve heard that the timing of Christmas may have been borrowed from Roman sun god worship. Or that Christmas trees come from German paganism.
Ælfric the Homilist on the Advent
Fr. Geoff Harvey8 Dec 2018 - 8:00am

Scripture has numerous ways of describing the relationship between God and mankind. The relationship is described as unity and oneness. It is described as partaking of Divinity. And sometimes it is described as being dressed or clothed in God’s righteousness.

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