Enjoy the traditional practices of Christmas and give them Spiritual meaning for your family. We have always tried to do this with our children as we didn’t want to be so different from the world that the world wouldn’t want what we have.
An old English historical writing contains a letter from Pope Gregory to Saint Mellitus, who was then on his way to England to conduct missionary work among the pagan Anglo-Saxons. Pope Gregory suggested that converting heathens would go easier if they were allowed to retain the outward forms of their traditional pagan practices and traditions, while reinterpreting those traditions spiritually towards the Christian God instead of to their pagan “devils”: “to the end that, whilst some gratifications are outwardly permitted them, they may the more easily consent to the inward consolations of the grace of God”.
Today we as Christians should hear what Pope Gregory said, and rather than condemn the dark practices of the world, we should try to live the “Light”. Remember Matthew 5:14 You are the light of the world.
