Comment on The Legend of the Christmas Tree and Why do we put Christmas trees at home in Christmas time? 🙂 by hip0.
The Pine Tree decoration as part of Christmas celebration started generally quite old somewhere in the 16th century in Protestant Churches. Probably as a santinemental thing for old Roman-Catholic church beauty and substitution for the pompose and greatness of the decoration of frescos, stone saints and ornaments, because logically the protestants should have felt regret for old Roman-Catholic church beauty. In the 16th century the Roman-Catholic church was already very much material oriented and thus the accent on external material started becoming more and more serious. This tendecy is continuing until now the Roman-Catholics during the 20th century and the last 50 years started to also massively adopt this protestant tradition. And from the years of communism, tradition passed by also to many Orthodox Churches.
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What is rather fun is during the anti-protest organized by Metropolitan Nikolay (with people only from the Plovdiv eparchy just like in the good old times of communism was financed by the unwilling people to go to the event). It was lied that the reason for Nikolay people to protest is because this is a protest in front of the Synod against the accepting of gay marriages (what a lie !!!). Besides that there is a many people from village called Krepost (if not mistaken the village) who were (protestants!) and came to protest in favour of the new anti people legislation (even though not orthodox christians), because they were mislead the protests are against the gays!
Metropolitan Nikolay has publicly asked priests in his eparchy to sign a document they're going to be present on the protests that should support the New Synodal "order". Those who were unwilling to cooperate of course can always be sent by their Metropolitan to a very distant village or even taken away their profession as priests so there was a lot of pressure put on those people.
От архива: Христовата любов побеждава дори смъртта, твърдеше приживе патриарх Неофит
Българският Патриарх Неофит в Москва на 8 Март 2016 г. ЧАСТ 2
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Hi Stan,
I guess you cannot read the writtings on the icon as it is in cyrillic.
This is not Saint Mary and Saint Peter but Adam and Eve written in cyrillic on top of the icon.
Actually in orthodoxy it is a requirement for the depicted personalities, especially saints to have
written on the names of the saint and have the Halo. If you look closely at the picture you will notice
the two Adam and Eve are missing a Halo. The only person with a Halo in the icon is Saint John the Baptist.
Best Regards
Georgi
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