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Christmas Carnivals » Christmas Hopes » Christmas Historic Hopes |
Christmas Historic Hopes |
Christmas anticipates a stress-free world when there would be a complete absence of the protocols of violence, aggression and sadism among mankind - the lower creatures according to the medieval notion of the Great Chain of Beings. Surf Christmas Carnivals for information on Christmas historic Hopes.
For instance, "Christmas truce" is a term used to describe the brief unofficial cessation of hostilities that occurred between the Allied and Axis Powers during the W.W.I. One momentous work that hearkens these days to mind is Eric Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front.
When the young German militia is confronted with trench warfare, dying in hellish agony, Paul must face the reality in which he finds himself and prepare for the world to which he will return, irrevocably changed. In case of the "Christmas truce", the youth began by lighting candles to commemorate the dead (you immediately recollect the horrors of Wilfred Owen's poem "Strange Meeting"). There was the chanting of Stille Nacht as well. The battlefield at Ypres in Belgium was decorated for Yule to mark the brief return to the pleasures of daily life.
The extract from Psalms 23 was recited at a funeral in No Man's Land: "The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul. He leadeth me in the path of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil". Beginning from Christmas on December 25th up to Epihpany Day on January 6th, let's resolve to rid the world of sins and racial jealousies to restore a reign of harmony and spread the message of God with Christmas Carnivals Christmas historic Hopes.
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