The feast of the Nativity of Jesus has become the largest official party of Christianity only in the relatively recently.
Christmas is the Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, Son of the Virgin Mary. It falls on December 25 (January 7 in the Eastern Churches, to the change of the Julian calendar).
The Italian word Christmas comes from the Latin Natalis that means "Christmas on the birth."
According to the Gospel of Luke, Jesus was born of Mary in Bethlehem, where she and her husband Joseph went to attend to the population census organized by the Romans.
his first tracks as a Christian holiday met only around the third century after Christ and his final emergence until mid-fourth century.
The observance of Christmas Day was introduced in Antioch until about 375 AD in Alexandria and just after 430.
According to the Christian liturgical calendar is a level of solemnity of the Epiphany, Ascension and Pentecost and inferior to the Passover (the holiday more important acquitted) and certainly the most popularly felt, especially since the last two centuries, ever since it became the party where we exchanged gifts and more is in the family.
On Christmas as a Christian feast were written dozens of poems, short stories, folk songs, nursery rhymes, lullabies and more.
For his disciples the birth or Nativity of Christ was preceded by several prophecies that the Messiah would be born from the house of David to redeem the world dl sin.
This is the story of Christmas is beautiful, poetic, created by men to make room for a little hope and joy even in the dead of winter more hard when it seems that everyone knows dead and sterile, but the seed begins to germinate in the ground and began the revolution of the seasons and the fast, happy racing days to the flowering of spring.
David, the chosen of God David in Hebrew means "delight", the "beloved", and he was, in fact, the object of divine favor: "He shall build a house for my name and I always will establish the throne of his kingdom. I will be his father and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men ... But he will not withdraw my favor. " (2 Samuel 7, 13-15)
The first book of Samuel tells the story of David's youth and his ascension to the throne of Israel.
Last of the sons of Jesse, a shepherd of Bethlehem, the most frail and, even more seriously in the Jewish world, red hair, was chosen by Samuel, sent by the Lord to anoint a new king Saul because he was disgraced.
David went to the court of the king, who became a musician and squire, and often calm the anger by playing the harp.
still young, armed with a sling, confronted and killed the giant Philistine Goliath in battle, so deciding the fate of the war. This and other
successes, however, aroused the jealousy of Saul, so he was forced to leave the court.
David wandered for several years in the Judean desert with a few brave and faithful companions, and stood at the service of the Philistines, but never fight against his people.
the death of Saul, the tribe of Judah elected him king in the city of Hebron, and a few years later, he was elected king of Judah and Israel.
conquered Jerusalem and made it the capital of his kingdom, recandole prestige, carrying the Ark of the Covenant.
David showed a weak character, however: he was overwhelmed by the desire of absolute power, and could not establish itself in the intrigues of his many women and their children. During
the war against the Ammonites, the king wove an adulterous relationship with Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah general. When he saw Bathsheba pregnant, David tried hard and succeeded in killing her husband.
"And the mourning was past, David sent to pick her up and held with him, but the action that had made very displeasing to the Lord. Then he sent the prophet Nathan to David ... ... The Lord on his part to put away your sin: thou shalt not die, but the son who was born, because you have offended the Lord with such guilt, he will die without doubt. "
(2 Samuel 11-12).
The child died shortly after birth, and David, now fully aware of his error, wrote one of the most beautiful psalms, great expression of faith and, together, great works of poetry, Psalm 50, also called the "Miserere" from the first verse in the Latin translation: "Miserere mei domine, secundum tuam Misericordiam.
Seventy years after forty years of reign, died, leaving David to Solomon, the realization of his greatest dream: the Temple of Jerusalem.
David was the author of a number of poems in the biblical Book of Psalms. The Psalms of David, taken as a whole, an exceptional piece of poetry to the depth of thought and faith that is expressed and the freshness of the images used. David is commonly believed, from both the Jewish world is Christianity, the foreshadowing of the Messiah, the Lord's anointed.
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