Every year in the month of December millions of homes all around the world are decorated with Christmas trees, lights, and candles. This is Christmas, a time for carols, cakes, gifts and family gatherings. This festival celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. Over the years Christmas has become a time of gift giving and rejoicing in peace.
The Festival of Lights begins two days before Thanksgiving and lasts into the New Year. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years. Christmas festival is the crystal notes that ring the silent night with stars of light.If one religious festival generates almost universal acclaim it must surely be Christmas . Christmas is the celebration of the birth or Nativity of Jesus Christ, the founder of Christianity on 25 th date of December every year. The festival is celebrated with lot of gaiety and fanfare all over the world.The birthday of Jesus Christ has been celebrated on December 25th since AD 354, replacing an earlier date of January 6th. The Christians had by then appropriated many pagan festivals and traditions of the season.
We have taken many customs from different places around the world and mixed them together to form our modern celebration of Christmas. For example, we have taken the Christmas tree from Germany and gift giving from the Dutch tradition of leaving out wooden shoes for them to be filled with goodies. But one tradition remains universal i.e., sharing and caring. Christmascarnivals.com is a symbol of this unity and love that binds the whole world into one.
The festivities for Christmas continue for ten days from December 24 th to January 1, the New Year day. Prayers, plays, parties, carols and fun filled get togethers are a part of Christmas festivities. Also, associated with the celebrations are cakes, Christmas trees, gifts and Santa Claus.The word Christmas comes from the words Cristes maesse, or "Christ`s Mass." Historians claim that the first celebration of Christmas happened in Rome in 336 A.D. Today, Christmas is celebrated on a grand-scale all over the world. Christians and even the non-Christian community participate with great enthusiasm in the various festivities associated with it. People visit friends and relatives on the day and participate in the masses held in churches. Children particularly enjoy the festival as they receive gifts from their favourite Santa and elders. They also love decorating scenes of Nativity in their houses.
Exchanging cards has also become a very important part of the festivities. Besides markets are flooded with a lot of decorative items on the day. People of all ages look forward to Christmas holidays with lot of zeal.
