When Christmas comes around, you would always see colorful decorations in malls, streets, and even in your neighbors’ house. People are busy preparing foods for ’Noche Buena’ and wrapping items for gift-giving party. You would hear too children knocking in your door and singing a Christmas carol. As I reflected our way of celebrating Christmas today, I mused: Where is the Christ in Christmas?
One day I went to a shopping mall and was greeted by a big Christmas tree with colorful decorations beside a pile of gifts and a life size image of talking Santa. As I observed shoppers, including me, felt the spirit of Christmas. After a moment, I was looking for a Belen but found none. This is the reason why, now a days, I feel Christmas is turning into “decorationmas” or “Clausmas” or “foodmas”. There is nothing wrong in doing and preparing these stuff that we think it is a symbol of Christmas. It is just that sometimes we are more focus on the material symbolism in celebrating Christmas instead of the real spirit of the celebration.
One day I went to a shopping mall and was greeted by a big Christmas tree with colorful decorations beside a pile of gifts and a life size image of talking Santa. As I observed shoppers, including me, felt the spirit of Christmas. After a moment, I was looking for a Belen but found none. This is the reason why, now a days, I feel Christmas is turning into “decorationmas” or “Clausmas” or “foodmas”. There is nothing wrong in doing and preparing these stuff that we think it is a symbol of Christmas. It is just that sometimes we are more focus on the material symbolism in celebrating Christmas instead of the real spirit of the celebration.