Christmas recalls the miracle of the Incarnation and the power of each person to bring light into the world. The holiday divides history into before and after and remains a time of spiritual experience, family reunion, and joy.
The ritual of rolling a burning wheel on the snow is also associated with the fire, melting it, which represents the movement of the Sun on its path – a year cycle. In winter, they also commit to their alternative loved one, only this is manifested as bathing in the snow. Love manifests itself in a trinity of mutual affection
James and the Snowman quickly form a friendship, spending the rest of the morning playing with toys and inventing games. But with James’ parents fast asleep, they have to stay quiet.
There are other reasons too: a carefully chosen book for someone you love or in any way is special to you is as personal as a kiss. A book is a hug with every page turned.
Traditional Christmas celebrations have been canceled this year in the city where Jesus Christ was born. Residents of Bethlehem are mourning the thousands of people killed by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip. Christmas Eve looks gloomy in the city known as the birthplace of Jesus. Bethlehem canceled traditional holiday […]
In 1816 Joseph Mohr created the text Silent Night! in the form of a poem in Mariapfarr in the Lungau region where he was living at the time. 1818 In the schoolhouse of Arnsdorf, on Christmas Eve, Franz Xaver Gruber composes a melody to fit the text. 1818 Silent Night! Holy […]
Leipzig, 1824: Ernst Anschütz, the choirmaster of the Saint Georg church, is preparing for Christmas festivities. He’s looking for suitable old songs that can be adapted for young listeners. Along the way, he discovers something in a different vein. Written by Joachim August Zarnack, it’s a tragic love […]
Would anyone be inspired to write books, compose music, or paint pictures if there was no one to enjoy them? Yes, I think they would. It is my belief that each of us is given a gift although many go through life without discovering their unknown ability; a great pity.
What liberal media describes as ‘offensive messages’ have been projected on the side of a bridge in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, during New Year celebrations.
During the Romanov period (1613-1922) the banking houses of Wall Street New York, Frankfurt am Maine and London were alien to all things Russian. Before the Russian Tragedy in 1917 the population of Imperial Russia stood at 182 million.
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