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Christmas or The Feast of the Nativity                       The Festival of Pascha or Easter


                           Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the           The Pasqua in Hebrew, originally meant Passover, It is
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               birth of Jesus Christ, generally celebrated on the 25  of December    originally a Jewish celebration of thankful prayers and a feast of eating
                                                                            ritual foods like Matzah brei and lamb. The feast commemorates the
               every year. ‘Christmas’ is an English word derived from the older
                                                                            liberation of the Jews from bondage under the Egyptians. But for the
               “Christes Maesse,” which means Christ’s Mass. Originally the
                                                                            Christians, it is a celebration of the event when Jesus Christ redeemed
               tradition developed from the annual celebration of the planet
                                                                            all the sins of humanity by accepting torture until his death and his
               Saturn, called, “Saturnalia.” which began in mid-December and
                                                                            ensuing Resurrection. That incident is now marked as the ‘passing-over’
               lasted until the 1st of January. It was performed until the reign of   from his death to his resurrection. From sorrow to rejoicing, from life

               Constantine the Emperor, who, due to his belief in Christianity,   full of sin and death to a new life, it is the celebration the Christians
               designated an annual celebration on the 25  of December to mark  call ‘Easter.’ On that day, there will also be a feast of eating turkey
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               the birthday of Christ. Henceforth, the ‘Christ Mass’ celebration    and eggs. In the early times of Christianity, eggs were forbidden as
                                                                            food during the Lent or fasting period. When the Lent period ends,
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               took place in Rome from the 4  century AD onwards. Today,
                                                                            Christians are able to have eggs again, symbolizing a new beginning,
               this Christian festival is widely known as Christmas, celebrated
                                                                            like that of an egg. Afterward, the Easter festival with the tradition of
               culturally by a large number of non-Christian people around the
                                                                            eating and distributing eggs was started. Today, hardboiled eggs with
               world. It is a festival of gift-giving and decorating Christmas
                                                                            paint of bright color or with written wishes are hidden in bushes for
               trees. In Thailand, there are also celebrations of Christmas day   a traditional Easter egg treasure hunt, which is especially fun for the

               among Christians. Besides, there is a unique Christmas celebration   children.
               called "Christmas Star Procession" at Tha Re District of Sakhon
                                                                            The Ash Wednesday
               Nakorn province. The festival was firstly hold in 1982 to celebrate
                                                                                       Lent, is the period of fasting for forty days and ends
               the birth of Jesus Christ, based on the legend saying that; during
                                                                            with the celebration of the Pasqua, or Easter, in Christianity.
               the time Jesus was born, an astrologer noticed the appearance of
                                                                            The  name  “Quadragesima”of  a  festival  is  Latin,  meaning,
               one big star in the sky with a much brighter light than the others.
                                                                            “the fortieth.” (called “Lent” in English) The festival begins with
               He followed that star to the birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem,    Ash Wednesday, which is a ritual ceremony of consecrating and

               in the region of Palestine. The ‘star’ is, therefore a symbol of Jesus  sprinkling ashes onto the heads of adherents during the ‘Missa or
               descending to the earth, and is called the “Star of Bethlehem.” In  Mass’ rite. The sprinkling of ashes is a symbol of mourning or the
               commemoration of that event, people create many stars from a    repenting of the Jews in ancient times. During the fasting period,
                                                                            the adherents are to abstain from meat and only have one meal per
               bamboo structure, attaching colored papers to the bamboo stars to
                                                                            day. It is accompanied by religious practice, acts of charity, and not
               adorn the church, their houses and for use in a procession of hundreds
                                                                            partaking in luxurious lifestyles. Today, Catholics are mostly asked
               of cars that roll on into the night.
                                                                            to do positive social works of charity to help people. The rite is over
                                                                            on the Pasqua or Easter day.





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