聖誕節英語演講稿：Origin of Chdstmas

origin of chdstmas___聖誕由來

the name christmas is short for“christ’s mass”.a mass is a kind of church stmas is a religious is the day we celebrate as the birthday of jesus.

there are special christmas services in christian churches all over the many of the festivities of christmas do not have anything to do with anging gifts and sending christmas cards are the modern ways of celebrating the christmas in the world.

the birth of jesus had a story：in nazareth，a city of virgin’s name was mary was betrothed to re they came together，she was found with

child of the holy ph，her husband was minded to put her away e he thought about these things，gabriel，an angel of the lord appeared to him in a

dream and told him did not be afraid to take mary as mary，will bring forth a son，and he shall call his name，jesus,for he will save his people from their sins.

before jesus ph and mary came to quintus was governing all went to be registered，everyone to his own ph also went up out of

of the city of judea，to the city of h is called bethlehem，because he was of the house and of the lineage of david，to be registered with mary。his betrothed wife，who was with it was that while they were days were completed for her to be she brought forth her firstborn wrapped him in swaddling laid him in a

use there was no room for them jn the stmas is the feast of the nativity of on 25th，december every nobody know the acluai birthday of the christmas has become popular when christmas cards appeared in 1 846 and the concept of a joily santa claus was first made popular in nineteenth century.

“聖誕節”這個名稱是“基督彌撒”的縮寫。彌撒是教會的一種禮拜儀式。耶誕節是一個宗節我們把它當作耶穌的誕辰來慶祝，因而又名耶誕節。這一天，世界所有的基督教會都舉行特別的禮拜儀式。但是有很多聖誕節的歡慶活動和宗教並無半點關聯。交換禮物，寄聖個誕卡，這都使聖誕節成為一個普天同慶的日子。

聖誕節是基督教世界最大的節日。4世紀初，1月6日是羅馬帝國東部各教會紀念耶穌降生和受洗的雙重節日、稱為“主顯節”epiphany，亦稱“顯現節”即上帝通過耶穌向世人顯示自己。當時只有耶路撒冷的教會例外，那裏只紀念耶穌的誕生而不紀念耶穌的受洗。後來歷史學家們在羅馬基督徒習用的日曆中發現公元354年12月25日頁內記錄着：“基督降生在猶大的伯利恆。”經過研究，一般認為12月25日伴為聖誕節可能開始於公元336年的羅馬教會)約在公元375年傳到小亞細亞的安提阿，公元430年傳到埃及的亞歷山大里亞，耶路撒冷的教會接受得最晚，而亞美尼亞的教會則仍然堅持1月6日主顯節是耶穌的誕辰。

12月25日原來是波斯太陽神(即光明之神)密特拉(mithra)的誕辰，是一個異教徒節日，同時太陽神也是羅馬國教眾神之一。這一天又是羅馬曆書的冬至節，崇拜太陽神的異教徒

都把這一天當作春天的希望，萬物復甦的開始。可能由於這個原因，羅馬教會才選擇這一天作為聖誕節。這是教會初期力圖把異教徒的風俗習慣基督教化的措施之一。

後來，雖然大多數教會都接受12月25日為聖誕節，但又固各地教會使用的歷書不同，具體日期不能統一，於是就把12月24日到第二年的1月6日定為聖誕節節期(christmas tide)，各地教會可以根據當地具體情況在這段節期之內慶祝聖誕節。自從12月25日被大多數教會公認為聖誕節後，原來1月6日的主顯節就只紀念耶穌受洗了，但天主教會又把1月6日定為“三王來朝節”，以紀念耶穌生時東方三王(即三位博士)來朝拜的故事。隨着基督教的廣泛傳播，聖誕節已成為各教派基督徒，甚至廣大非基督徒羣眾的一個重要節日。在歐美許多國家裏，人們非常重視這個節日，把它和新年連在一起，而慶祝活動之熱鬧與隆

重大大超過了新年，成為一個全民的節日。12月25日的主要紀念活動都與耶穌降生的傳説有關。