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Entry: Christmas on the West Bank Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/christmas_on_the_west_bank#11657 Post contents: <I>It was the Romans that honored Sol Invictus (invincible sun) on December 25th.</I> The Acts of the Enrollment were kept in the Public Liberry in Rome and the early Christians showed them to early converts. Jesus was born on the 25th (Folks like you, barbarians, later sacked Rome and torched the liberry). +++++++ Begin Quotes +++++++++ First Apology St. Justin Martyr Chapter 34. Place of Christ's birth foretold. And hear what part of earth He was to be born in, as another prophet, Micah, foretold. He spoke thus: "And thou, Bethlehem, the land of Judah, art not the least among the princes of Judah; for out of thee shall come forth a Governor, who shall feed My people." Micah 5:2 Now there is a village in the land of the Jews, thirty-five stadia from Jerusalem, in which Jesus Christ was born,<B>as you can ascertain also from the registers of the taxing made under Cyrenius,</B> your first procurator in Judæa. Against Marcion: Tertullian And yet how could He have been admitted into the synagogue—one so abruptly appearing, so unknown; one, of whom no one had as yet been apprised of His tribe, His nation, His family, and lastly, <B>His enrolment in the census of Augustus—that most faithful witness of the Lord's nativity, kept in the archives of Rome</B> The Liturgical Year: Dom Gueranger And firstly, with regard to our<B> Saviour's Birth on Dec. 25, we have St. John Chrysostom telling us in his homliy for this Feast, that the Western Churches had, from the very commencement of Christianity, kept it on this day.</B> He is not satisfied with merely mentioning this <B>tradition; he undertakes to show it is very well founded, inasmuch as the Church of Rome had every means of knowing the true day of our Saviour's Birth, since the acts of the enrollment, taken in Judea by command of Augustus, were kept in the public archives of Rome.</B>The Holy Doctor adduces a second arguement, which he founds upon the Gospel of St. Luke, and he reasons thus: we know from the sacred Scriptures that it must have been in the fast of the sevent month (Lev 23.the 7th month, Tsiri, corresponded to out Sept, beginning of October) that the Priest Zachary had the vision in the Temple; after which Elizabeth, his wife, conceived St. John the Baptist; hence it follows that that the Blessed Virgin Mary having, as the Evangelist St Luke relates, received the Angel Gabriel's visit, and conceived the Saviour of the world in the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy, that is to say March, the Birth of Jesus must have taken place in the month of December. +++++++++++ end quotes +++++++++++++ *There's the Trifecta. Bible, Tradition,and Church ,all witnessing to the truth about Jesus being born on the 25th. Y'all can worship the Sun. As for me and my household,we will worship the Son. Sent at: 2008 08 30