[mikeus_maximus]

Perhaps, but it has nothing to do with God's will, either. Christ established the memorial He wanted-- the Lord's Supper, for his death. Men presumed to create a holiday for His birth. ("My thoughts are not your thoughts; My ways are not your ways...")

[Charles Henrickson]

Perhaps, but it has nothing to do with God's will, either. Christ established the memorial He wanted-- the Lord's Supper, for his death. Men presumed to create a holiday for His birth.

It is certainly God's will to have us know about and treasure the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. The event itself is recorded in the gospels, in the infancy narratives of Matthew 1-2 and Luke 1-2, and it is referred to theologically in John 1:14 and Galatians 4:4-5, for instance. So there is absolutely nothing wrong with the church wanting to ponder and rejoice in the mystery of the Incarnation with a holy day.

And the Festival of the Nativity of Our Lord--one of the three chief festivals of the church year--would not be complete without the Feast! The Christ Mass includes the Mass--they're not in competition with each other!

[Aquinasfan]

Men presumed to create a holiday for His birth.

They also "presumed" to compile the New Testament, since there is no record of Jesus commissioning the NT in the NT.