Comments on: Favorite Christmas Songs http://maritzia.com/2008/12/19/favorite-christmas-songs/ A witch in the modern world Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:59:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Maritzia http://maritzia.com/2008/12/19/favorite-christmas-songs/comment-page-1/#comment-46193 Maritzia Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:07:06 +0000 http://maritzia.com/?p=257#comment-46193 Yeah, it's amazing how many traditions were christianized pagan rituals. Being Catholic, where so much worship was ritualized, I found the transition to Pagan to be quite easy. One of the reasons I became Catholic to start with was because I really liked the rituals (and at the time, they were more liberal than the evangelicals I was raised around). I've always been fairly pagan in my beliefs, I just didn't know it until I met my husband, who is Pagan. Yeah, it’s amazing how many traditions were christianized pagan rituals. Being Catholic, where so much worship was ritualized, I found the transition to Pagan to be quite easy. One of the reasons I became Catholic to start with was because I really liked the rituals (and at the time, they were more liberal than the evangelicals I was raised around). I’ve always been fairly pagan in my beliefs, I just didn’t know it until I met my husband, who is Pagan.

]]> By: Rosemary Nissen-Wade (aka SnakyPoet) http://maritzia.com/2008/12/19/favorite-christmas-songs/comment-page-1/#comment-46190 Rosemary Nissen-Wade (aka SnakyPoet) Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:03:14 +0000 http://maritzia.com/?p=257#comment-46190 PS Many Christmas traditions had Pagan origins anyway! :) <abbr><em><abbr><em>Rosemary Nissen-Wade (aka SnakyPoet)s last blog post..<a href="http://rosemary-nissen-wade.blogspot.com/2008/12/wha-at.html" rel="nofollow">WHA-A-AT???</a></em></abbr></abbr></em> PS Many Christmas traditions had Pagan origins anyway! :)

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]]> By: Rosemary Nissen-Wade (aka SnakyPoet) http://maritzia.com/2008/12/19/favorite-christmas-songs/comment-page-1/#comment-46189 Rosemary Nissen-Wade (aka SnakyPoet) Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:59:18 +0000 http://maritzia.com/?p=257#comment-46189 I love a lot of Christmas songs too, including most of the above. Quite agree with you about Adeste Fidelis, although I wasn't raised Catholic. In my case it's the poet in me: in this instance the Latin just sounds so much better. There's little poetry in the English version. The beauty of the Pagan religions, I think, is that they are neither dogmatic nor evangelical. We don't think ours is the only path or the only truth. No-one's going to excommunicate you for liking Christmas songs and lustily singing along if you feel like it! The way I see it, Wicca is my chosen form of religious expression, because I like it, feel at home with it, and can align easily with its myths, practices and moral code. (I love that the only precept is, 'Do as ye will an [if] it harm none' - the most rigorous and responsible moral precept of all!) I happen to believe in the historical existence of Jesus, and I view him as a man who channelled the Christ energy - which I equate with Love, Peace and Truth - so successfully that he became at one with it. Which I further believe is available to all of us if we care to try for it. I think it's perfectly possible to be Pagan and also love Christ and revere Jesus. I see Deity as all-encompassing, and often use the term the Universe to mean that. I think, too, the Divine has many aspects and I usually prefer to focus on the female aspect or Goddess - which in turn has many aspects which we call by different names and view as different personalities. And then, we ourselves are sparks from the Divine fire.... What does it matter if you sometimes choose to celebrate Life by playing Christmas songs? You don't have to sign up to the dogma of some church or other in order to like the Nativity stories and/or enjoy worshipping through music. It's nice to have our own songs that express our own understanding and fit our own rituals, but I think God/Goddess/All That Is is big enough to accept whatever is offered, in the spirit in which it's offered. I am sure that joy is always welcome! <abbr><em><abbr><em>Rosemary Nissen-Wade (aka SnakyPoet)s last blog post..<a href="http://rosemary-nissen-wade.blogspot.com/2008/12/wha-at.html" rel="nofollow">WHA-A-AT???</a></em></abbr></abbr></em> I love a lot of Christmas songs too, including most of the above. Quite agree with you about Adeste Fidelis, although I wasn’t raised Catholic. In my case it’s the poet in me: in this instance the Latin just sounds so much better. There’s little poetry in the English version.

The beauty of the Pagan religions, I think, is that they are neither dogmatic nor evangelical. We don’t think ours is the only path or the only truth.

No-one’s going to excommunicate you for liking Christmas songs and lustily singing along if you feel like it!

The way I see it, Wicca is my chosen form of religious expression, because I like it, feel at home with it, and can align easily with its myths, practices and moral code. (I love that the only precept is, ‘Do as ye will an [if] it harm none’ – the most rigorous and responsible moral precept of all!)

I happen to believe in the historical existence of Jesus, and I view him as a man who channelled the Christ energy – which I equate with Love, Peace and Truth – so successfully that he became at one with it. Which I further believe is available to all of us if we care to try for it. I think it’s perfectly possible to be Pagan and also love Christ and revere Jesus.

I see Deity as all-encompassing, and often use the term the Universe to mean that. I think, too, the Divine has many aspects and I usually prefer to focus on the female aspect or Goddess – which in turn has many aspects which we call by different names and view as different personalities. And then, we ourselves are sparks from the Divine fire….

What does it matter if you sometimes choose to celebrate Life by playing Christmas songs? You don’t have to sign up to the dogma of some church or other in order to like the Nativity stories and/or enjoy worshipping through music. It’s nice to have our own songs that express our own understanding and fit our own rituals, but I think God/Goddess/All That Is is big enough to accept whatever is offered, in the spirit in which it’s offered. I am sure that joy is always welcome!

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