Story of the principal
Send it to Christmas
2013-12-02
It is Yuletime soon. It is the day when you must declare that you say that it is "a birthday of Jesus Christ" speaking of Christmas in front of everybody.
I remember a scene of the Christmas society of the kindergarten of the last year. The history of the saving grace is recited by the entrance of children, and birth of foretold Jesus Christ begins as a drama from an old promise first. I feel birth of warm Christ not to be able to express for words when children play it.
Originally Christianity begins with the suffering of yes and death and faith of the revival. St. Paul becomes a martyr last in Rome visiting various towns in the Roman Empire, but the Gospel (evangelion) that he wanted to convey is (cf. 22 sections - 23 sections of I Colin stage directions one chapter) that "the Jew demands a mark, and the Greek looks for wisdom, but we speak Christ touched on the cross, and tells" and saying just what.
Having come to think about time when Imperial son Jesus of God was born on this ground when it would be from.
Only the Luke Gospel and the Matthew Gospel conflict with birth of Christ in four Gospel, but learn a sense of incongruity in there not being the description in written Mark first. This just imagines me, but, at the time of the Marco Gospel, is that it might not be so important.
In other words, leading, a story and the manner in the public life of yes, a miracle story, the pains of the cross and death and revival were important to the thing that was important to an editor of the Marco Gospel. The story of the birth of yes thinks that I did not hit it in a problem very much at that point.
However, I think that the Gospel by Luke checked it to leave a correct record to say when and where Jesus was born that is objective as correct annalist. Because the suffering and the death on the cross remained as a fact of the history from birth of yes thanks to the Luke Gospel, I left splendid work as the Gospel. But the description that can identify a day of the birth of baby yes must not forget what is not described in the Luke Gospel either.
Originally Christianity begins with the suffering of yes and death and faith of the revival. St. Paul becomes a martyr last in Rome visiting various towns in the Roman Empire, but the Gospel (evangelion) that he wanted to convey is (cf. 22 sections - 23 sections of I Colin stage directions one chapter) that "the Jew demands a mark, and the Greek looks for wisdom, but we speak Christ touched on the cross, and tells" and saying just what.
Having come to think about time when Imperial son Jesus of God was born on this ground when it would be from.
Only the Luke Gospel and the Matthew Gospel conflict with birth of Christ in four Gospel, but learn a sense of incongruity in there not being the description in written Mark first. This just imagines me, but, at the time of the Marco Gospel, is that it might not be so important.
In other words, leading, a story and the manner in the public life of yes, a miracle story, the pains of the cross and death and revival were important to the thing that was important to an editor of the Marco Gospel. The story of the birth of yes thinks that I did not hit it in a problem very much at that point.
However, I think that the Gospel by Luke checked it to leave a correct record to say when and where Jesus was born that is objective as correct annalist. Because the suffering and the death on the cross remained as a fact of the history from birth of yes thanks to the Luke Gospel, I left splendid work as the Gospel. But the description that can identify a day of the birth of baby yes must not forget what is not described in the Luke Gospel either.
It is said that St. Francisco of ashiji made it for the first time in the origin of purezepio (thing, the barn which reproduced birth of Christ). It turns out that I was made at the end of the twelfth century. A made thing was left in ashiji first, but a season did not seem to be still clear when.
But you should pay attention to what it was placed according to the document that there remained it first as "a festival day to memorialize birth" that a day to say was set for some reason with December 25, and is not celebrated definitely as a birthday of Messiah yes. It is memory of the birth and does not say a birthday.
There were various opinions when the day when Jesus Christ was born was ever since Christianity was born. For example, in the beginning of the third century, St. Clemens of Alexandria supposes that it may be May 20.
However, in the Western Church, celebration fell below "kogensai" (the day when baby Jesus who was the Messiah was shown in the whole world) separately from birthday celebration for a saint on January 6. Three famous doctors visit Jesus with a present here. There is the direction supposing that I guess it from there and might select Christmas as December 25.
In addition, the opinion most convincing Mithraism (is secret service religion to assume sun god miters the chief god. I show the biggest prosperity in the Roman Empire over the first to the fifth century. There was a custom to be said that I enshrined a birthday of the invincible sun god on December 25, and to celebrate winter solstice of) on a large scale, but, worshiping you was the festival that Mitra God was born again. There seems to be a theologian to support when the opinion which I convert the festival and changed to the celebration on Christmas seems to be the very likely to be it a lot.
But you should pay attention to what it was placed according to the document that there remained it first as "a festival day to memorialize birth" that a day to say was set for some reason with December 25, and is not celebrated definitely as a birthday of Messiah yes. It is memory of the birth and does not say a birthday.
There were various opinions when the day when Jesus Christ was born was ever since Christianity was born. For example, in the beginning of the third century, St. Clemens of Alexandria supposes that it may be May 20.
However, in the Western Church, celebration fell below "kogensai" (the day when baby Jesus who was the Messiah was shown in the whole world) separately from birthday celebration for a saint on January 6. Three famous doctors visit Jesus with a present here. There is the direction supposing that I guess it from there and might select Christmas as December 25.
In addition, the opinion most convincing Mithraism (is secret service religion to assume sun god miters the chief god. I show the biggest prosperity in the Roman Empire over the first to the fifth century. There was a custom to be said that I enshrined a birthday of the invincible sun god on December 25, and to celebrate winter solstice of) on a large scale, but, worshiping you was the festival that Mitra God was born again. There seems to be a theologian to support when the opinion which I convert the festival and changed to the celebration on Christmas seems to be the very likely to be it a lot.
The big religious meaning has Christmas, but it is rather in a pronoun of the commercialism to the present age. However, a goddess is talked about Christmas to in the Bible as an event indicating the human having been loved so as originally to have sent own child to the world like the prediction of the old promise.
It was not rich without in King to have witnessed a great occasion on Christmas first and was the poor shepherdesses who watched over the sheep in a field. And it was a cow and the barn where a horse was, and born Son of God Jesus was also born in a fodder tank without in the royal palace not a big inn. It was an intelligible event that extremity, God of the modesty committed it only among modest people.
It is Christmas as the hope of the people whom there is in poverty and pains if I talk in a different way. It entrusts all in a kind of God with modesty before God, and this is because the person who is faithful to tell you of God was a poor person of Israel and suffering people in those days.
For the person employing self and an idol, I entrust the body to commercialism only for self-satisfaction and happiness of the world on this Christmas without employing God of the Trinity in the middle of the heart and feel like it being for a cake only for oneself, a present, the Christmas fashion only to people who are close to oneself. This is because there is not the thought for the person made small who is in trouble there.
I make a heart poor and, not the modesty only for the top of the form, make a space in a heart to be modest and think that I may point to a person poor there and the person with the heart to be considerate of a suffering person, a troubled person, a grieving person.
I think that the heart wants to meet genuine Christmas calmly.
Principal Michiharu Yamaguchi