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Post by Connor Stumperth I on Dec 21, 2015 4:52:40 GMT
Greetings fellow Knights!
As we are all Christians here, I would like to ask how you and your family celebrate this glorious holiday season.
My family goes to mass on Christmas Eve, then we spend the day with the rest of my family.
I would also like to remind you to not forget the true reason that we celebrate this holiday, the birth of our Lord. I also ask you to keep those who have no family or home to go to in your prayers.
Thank you, and good day.
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Post by Paolo Emilio I of Trebia on Dec 21, 2015 7:54:30 GMT
We light the Advent Crown every Advent Sunday. Usually we sing Adeste Fideles because that is the only Latin hymn my family knows, although I prayed the last Sunday on my own so I decided to sing Terra Tremuit. I'll try going to Mass on Christmas Eve and surely invite a friend or two. Also, don't forget who the real Santa Claus is (Hint: He slapped an arian heretic)
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Post by Sir Benedict on Dec 23, 2015 1:52:45 GMT
My family's Christmas traditions are much the same as those of many other American Catholics. We erect and decorate our Christmas tree around Saint Nicholas Day, everyone puts up their stockings, and we decorate our house in Christmas lights. All the family members that are able come to Capital District, we go to mass on Christmas morning, we all eat a big Christmas dinner which usually includes a ham, and we finish it off with a birthday cake for Jesus. Since there are priests in my family, we delay opening presents until a couple days after Christmas so that they can be in attendance. At some point in the festivities, we usually watch a film adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, as the Baroness of Lionsgate is a huge fan of Ebeneezer Scrooge. Santa Claus has never really been a part of our Christmas traditions, since neither I or my siblings ever believed the lies which proclaim his existence. Saint Nicholas has always had a part, though, but only on Saint Nicholas Day, when we put our shoes outside our doors so that Saint Nicholas can come and put candy in them.
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Post by Pan Kristoff Drevo on Dec 31, 2015 21:31:56 GMT
Aha, Christmas traditions! We have so many, I don't know where to start. Well, to begin with, the Byzantine Advent, or Nativity Fast, begins a full two weeks earlier. So we have an Advent wreath, but it has six candles, not four. We use it the same way. Every evening, before supper, we sing a verse of one of the many Advent hymns we know, from both the Eastern and Western traditions, with the seven verses of "O come, o come, Emmanuel" at the last week before Christmas. Sometime shortly after the fast begins, we draw names to see who we do secret nice things for all throughout the fast. It's to focus the season on giving. On the Eve of St. Nicholas, we hang out our stockings for the jolly saint to fill up, and we also usually take the day off school (homeschool!) and go to liturgy. We also take out our Nativity creche and set up Mary and Joseph, but none of the other figures. We take the three Wise Men to begin their journey in Bethlehem, and they trek all through the house until Theophany, or Epiphany, when they finally arrive at Bethlehem. Because many of us are in the church choir and my dad's a deacon, we go to services both on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and open our presents after liturgy on Christmas Day. Which is followed by a feast. And throughout the Christmas season, we sing a Christmas carol, from East or West, before supper.
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