In the first 1200 years of Christianity the great feast, hands -down, was Easter, the holy week leading up to it, leading up to the celebration of the resurrection of Christ. But around 1200, a new man entered the scene called Francis of Assisi and he felt we didn't need to wait for God to love us by the cross and resurrection. In fact, he thought it started with love and he popularized what you and I take for granted today as the big Christian feast, Christmas.
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Richard Rohr, OFM, shares the meaning of Christmas from a Franciscan perspective. “When we speak of Advent or preparing for Christmas, we’re not talking about waiting for a little baby to be born. We’re in fact welcoming the universal, cosmic Christ—the Christ that is forever being born in the human soul and history.” See Video and Transcript
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