The Christian festival (2)
But Chrysostom also said: "Come! What these people call feasts and solemnities drunkenness and all the disruption that follows and indecent they derive naturally from this: the Church of God, in reverse of all this celebration called fasting, the contempt for the stomach and all the virtue that results. Here it is, the real celebration takes place where the salvation of souls, where peace and harmony, which are driven fantasy world, which are excluded from the cry and tumult, the race of butchers and slaughters animals for no reason. There is tranquility, peace smiling, love, joy, peace, gentleness and all goods which are the wages "(Homilies on Genesis 1, 1). le-tourneau.blogspot.com/2011/02/la-fete-chretienne-2.html "> (read more ) And so we did not think St. John Chrysostom is a fixation, that it stands alone against the orgiastic feasts of the heathen, pagans of all time, also include St. Gregory Nazianzen: "That's why we celebrate a solemnity not as profane, but in a divine not the way of the world, but in a way above the world, not as our party, but as that of Christ is ours, or rather like our Master, not like the disease, but as one of healing, not like modeling, but like the remodeling. And how can this be it? Let us garlands to decorate the hallways, assemble choirs of dance, decorate the streets to delight the eye, charm the ear, to offer the smell of perfume effeminate prostitution of the taste , to flatter touch: what are the paths open to vice and sin entries. (...) But let the Greeks, let the pumps and the solemn Hellenic. (...) We who have the Word object of worship, if we take some pleasures, let's take them in speech, in the divine law, in the stories, especially those that have earned us the solemnity this so our pleasures are related to it, not foreign to him who called us "(Speech 38 for Theophany).(end)
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