Christmas Eve takes place on December 24 and is probably one of the best nights of the year! Christmas has the power to reunite families and friends, warm up our hearts, and remind us that we have so many things to be thankful for. So put on your cozy PJs, light up your fireplace, call your loved ones, and top off your hot cocoa with some fluffy marshmallows!
In many parts of Europe, people believe that at midnight on Christmas Eve, animals briefly possess the power of speech. It might have been the traditional association of the ox and the donkey in the Nativity scene that gave rise to such superstitions, but the concept of talking animals is probably pagan in origin. A closely related belief, widespread in England and Europe, is that cattle rise in their stalls at midnight on Christmas Eve, or kneel to worship the Christ child.
Christmas shows divine involvement; God's divine involvement in the lives of people is another reminder of the true meaning of Christmas. He did not just send Jesus as an adult to drop down on earth and start doing miracles. The Father let Jesus come to earth from the beginning stage of life - infancy, and let Him live all the way to adulthood, so that men would identify with Him, and so that He could experience all that His people were going through. Jesus was made just like you.
Christmas is a reminder that through Jesus, the Father made only one provision for the sins of the world. That is why the birth of Jesus is such an important event. There had never been another such birth, and there will never be another one, because of the weight that this birth carried - forgiveness of sins.
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