Christmas Present

The concept of celebrating Jesus’ birth was done to counteract pagan holidays
celebrated in Rome during the Winter Solstice. Church leaders thought Christmas
celebrations were ever more probably to be well-liked if they coincided with the
ancient festivals and merrymaking throughout the Winter Solstice.
Though some Christmas celebrations are secular, the non secular side of
Christmas remains central to celebrations. This is clear in church services
like Midnight Mass and primarily in the numerous forms of the Nativity, or
Christmas Story, presented wherever people celebrate Christmas.
That story started in Nazareth in Galilee about two thousand years ago.
Mary, a young woman, was betrothed to a carpenter named Joseph. An angel appeared
to her one day and told her she was with child. She couldn’t understand how that
can occur as due to her circumspect nature, she had not laid in bed with
Joseph. The angel explained , that the infant would be unique as he would
be the Son of God and his name was to be Jesus. Mary and Joseph then got married
soon when the angel’s appearance.. But about the season when Mary was to have the
baby, the pair had to travel far away to Bethlehem, Joseph’s birthplace, to
pay a special tax.
It was tough for them to attain a room to keep since several different
people were in Bethlehem to pay their taxes. When a lot of rejections, one
innkeeper offered a space in his stable where they may spend the night. That is
where Jesus, the Holy Infant and Son of God was born and then wrapped in bundles
of cloth and placed in a manger for a cradle.
In the identical hours that Mary was giving birth, shepherds who were in a
field that overlooked Bethlehem saw an extraordinarily bright star over the sky in
Bethlehem. That they had never seen anything prefer it and had feelings of curiosity
and scariness. An angel appeared and told them the ’sensible news’ that the Son of
God had been born in Bethlehem.
The shepherds left their flocks to head to Bethlehem to find the baby. When
they reached the stable, they were filled with immense joy at seeing Jesus. They
fell to their knees and worshipped Him. They also told Mary and Joseph about the
bright star and the angel built to say Jesus would be the Savior of the
world.
The intense star was also seen by Wise Men during the east. The Wise Men, who
studied the celebs, learned that a new and great ruler would seem whenever an
very bright star appeared in the sky. Three of them thus set out
to locate the new ruler. They first visited King Herod in Jerusalem because they
thought the child would be born within the palace. But after they asked to see the
infant who would be the new ruler, King Herod was incredibly worried as he thought he
would be removed from the throne. King Herod told the Wise Men that after they
found the baby, they are supposed to return and tell him so that he might also worship
the baby.
The Wise Men used the star as a guide to go to Bethlehem where they found Mary,
Joseph and Baby Jesus who they worshipped and offered gifts of gold,
frankincense and myrrh. The Wise Men are celebrated in several Christmas
festivities on Jan. six, referred to as the Epiphany to mark the date after they found
Jesus. Later during the evening the 3 Wise Men had a dream in which an angel told
them that King Herod needed to kill Baby Jesus. They left Bethlehem to come back to
the East but did not come back to Jerusalem to tell King Herod where that they had found
the child. Joseph also had a dream soon after the Wise Men left in which an
angel appeared and told him to go on Mary and Jesus to Egypt since Herod had
ordered that Jesus be killed. In an effort to kill Jesus after the Wise Men did
not come back to tell him of the baby’s whereabouts, Herod later ordered that all
baby boys in Bethlehem must be killed. But by then Mary and Joseph had left
with Baby Jesus.