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> I’ve been totally indulged in merriment these days… you know, “Christmas cheer”, may your days be merry and bright,… la la la la…
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> But that’s not the essence of the season, you know. Christ is the “joy” of this season. . He is our “comfort and joy”
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> Ngunit kahit na anong mangyari… ang Pag-ibig sana’y maghari,… sapat nang si Jesus ang kasama n’yo,… tuloy na tuloy pa rin,, ang Pasko…
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> A stalker txtd me, asking, “How can Catholics be so sure that December the 25th is the exact date of Christ’s birth?”
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> Well, that’s the topic I want to share to you, cause it’s Christmas anyway..
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> The early Christians selected Dec 25th as the proper date of Christmas, may be because, according to some Bible scholars, there were Biblical evidences to conclude, Dec25th was the exact date of our Lord’s Birth.
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> According to some bible experts, St Luke must have interviewed the mother of God, Mary, to get the details in Jesus’ infancy. Incredible enough is his familiarity with the whereabouts of Mary and Mary’s sentiments. It also reveals how St. Luke wrote the innermost impressions of Mary two times, “She treasured all these things, pondering them in heart.” (Lk 219,51) which will be not known to him unless Mary informed him about it. So St. Luke in his style wrote the Gospel in “orderly sequence” (Lk 1:1) according to the information he had gathered from the mother of Jesus Christ who knows how to “treasure all these things, pondering them in heart.”
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> Scripture says Zechariah received the message from the Angel Gabriel while he was incensing, which shows the feast of the Dedication of the Temple.which falls on the seventh month of Tishri, according to the Jewish Calendar, and to the Roman Calendar, at the middle of the month of September. (September itself means “seventh”) Tradition says Elizabeth, Zechariah’s wife, conceived by Sept 24. (Now adding just 9 months from this date would be the date of St. John the Baptist’s Birthday, which the Church celebrates on June 24)
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> “In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy the Angel Gabriel was sent by God to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin named Mary…” (Lk 1:26-27).
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> So by Sept 24, that is , the time of Elizabeth’s conception, we add six months …
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> October… November… December… January… February… March!
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> March 24, Right!
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> Mary received the annunciation of Gabriel (Lk 1:26) by March 24. (Traditionally, the Church celebrates the feast of the Annunciation at March 25.)
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> So from that day on (March 24), is Mary’s starting point of pregnancy, which she carries the Child God Himself. We move forward to 9 more months counting the natural gestation period of the child in the womb.
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> March..April… (this counting thing is really tiring) May… June… July… August… September…. October…. November… December!
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> Now, December 24.
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> But Christ was born at the midnight of December 24!, as the angels proclaim:
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> “For today, there was born for you in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.” (Lk 2:11).
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> The word Today might mean another day after December 24, for the Jewish day starts from sunset and ends to the next sunset, or the day ante-meridiem, passed midnight, in the wee hours of Dec 25!!!
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> So, is that clear guys? The next time those ants (contraction of anti-Catholics, for they keep on biting us!) ask you, blow them the bang right away!
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> GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO, ET IN TERRA PAX HOMINIBUS BONAE VOLUNTATIS (Glory to God in the highest and in earth peace, to men of goodwill.