what does advent mean?
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Advent-\n(1) The comming or arrival especially of something really important.\n\n(2) The liturgical period proceeding Christmas beginning in Western Chuches on the Fourth Sunday before Christmas and in the Eastern Churches in Mid-November, and observer by many Christians as a season of prayer, fasting and penitence.
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Jesus is a name. Christ is an attribute. Christ comes from the Greek Χριστός (hristos), who is the one who has received the Χρίσμα (hrisma). In other words, one who has been "ordained". In the case of Jesus Christ and the Christian tradition, that would mean he was "ordained" (decreed, anointed) by God.\n\n"Christ" is closer to the importance and divinity attributed to Jesus than the name "Jesus" which is closer to his human nature. I assume that is why we have Christianity and Christmas.\n\nA more simple explanation would be to look at the meaning of the word Christmas(s) as a "mass" (gathering) of Christians - thus Christmas.
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Christmas (tho called by other names) is a pagan holiday that the Church adopted in order to make people  feel more inclined to follow Christianity.  Alot of Christianity was adopted from pagan rituals---a matter of comfort level for the people.\n\nTrue, today, the merchants are the biggest promoters of Christmas.  And, they do a good job if it.
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The X represents the Greek letter Chi, which looks like an X.  The New Testament was written in Greek and Chi is the first letter in the name Christ.\n\nThe -mas comes from the word "mass" for the Roman Catholic religious service.\n\nSo, Christmas referred to the Christ Mass that was said that day.
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anno domini. it means "in the year of our Lord." and is used for the years AFTER Jesus Christ died.
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It probably means that a church is being split into two different groups or sides with no middle ground.  For example, the church members may be extremely liberal or extremely conservative with no members that fall in between.  I'm just guessing, though.
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according to the Catholic Liturgical Calendar... there are 6 seasons begining with Advent:.\n*Advent (preparing for the Birth of Jesus), begins the end of November, early Dec.lasts until xmas day; colors are violet\n*Christmas; begins on Christmas day and lasts through mid January  colors are gold and white\n*Ordinary Time, the season before Lent, color is green\n*Lent (preparation for Easter) begins on Ash Wednesday, aprx 40 days before Easter, color is violet\n*Easter, begins on Easter Sunday and lasts 50 days, colors gold, white\n*Ordinary Time, lasts from the end of Easter season until Advent, colors are green
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The word "Christmas" means "Mass of Christ," later shortened to "Christ-Mass." The even shorter form "Xmas" - first used in Europe in the 1500s - is derived from the Greek alphabet, in which X is the first letter of Christ's name: Xristos, therefore "X-Mass."
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It means to understand that something is based on reason. Therefore words from the bible were written as known to man from words of "Jesus" and the viewpoint is not exchangeable.
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Christmas is a time of celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.  We make it about shopping, parties, gifts and momentary happiness.  In truth, the happy feeling we have during the Christmas season, should be with us all the time, all year long.  We tend to forget that without Jesus Christ, there would be no "season".
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In Classical Latin it is the term for "religious affairs"\n\nliteral meaning "things relating to a deity"
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Xmas\nThis abbreviation for Christmas is of Greek origin. The word for Christ in Greek is Xristos. During the 16th century, Europeans began using the first initial of Christ's name, "X" in place of the word Christ in Christmas as a shorthand form of the word. Although the early Christians understood that X stood for Christ's name, later Christians who did not understand the Greek language mistook "Xmas" as a sign of disrespect
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Well for a Christian this simply means that the Long awaited Days of Total Peace and Joy and the end of all sorrows is comming soon. They will get to be with Jesus their savior. The one who they live their lives here on earth for. Kinda like Stepping out of a Filthy nasty sewer that they have been trapped in forever and into clean fresh running water never to see or smell the sewer again.
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AD: Anno Domine in the Christian era; used before dates after the supposed year Christ was born; "in AD 200" \nwordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn\n\nBC: Abbreviation for the term Before Christ. Years are counted back from the traditionally recognized year of Christ's birth. In academic, historical, and archaeological circles, this term is now generally replaced by Before Common Era (BCE).\nwww.archaeological.org/webinfo.php
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The true meaning of Christmas is to buy as much as you can and go into debt for at least 6 months of the year buying presents for people.\nIf Christmas was supposed to be for Jesus then why was his b-day changed to December? I would never change the b-day of one of my children, or someone I held in high reguards....
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Maybe Timothy. It means God's honor.
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Its actually spelled ESCHATOLOGY. It is a part of the "Theology" which talks about the "End of World" or the "Armageddon"..\n\nAs you can read from Wiki (link below) it is derived from the Greek word for "End of age"\n\n.:Fishie:.