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**Freeptube** · 11-01-2008, 11:45 PM

Dearest Nina,

Oh dear, I am sorry that I made you upset, my sweet sister in Christ...

What I meant was that just like mixed faith families all celebrate the Christmas day feast together (though not services), it would be nice to celebrate the day together, especially when there are small children involved. With many of my friends, they are celebrating two feasts, which I suppose is not so bad if you think of having two great home cooked meals!

On the other hand, some of my mixed faith friends find it makes life easier because they don't have to decide which set of parents to go to for this particular celebration...they can go to both on the different days! (except when the dates fall together).

This was not intended to mean *anything about religious services*.

For instance, I remember this situation growing up....one of my mother's sisters became Anglican and her children were also Anglican. My grandmother and grandfather and the rest of the large family were Greek Orthodox. It was very nice on Christmas for all the cousins to gather at yiayia and papou's house together, despite our faith traditions being different. However, when Pascha came around, often they were not able to make it for 'Greek Easter' because they had already had their Easter so it became a Sunday feast that often eliminated one segment of the family.

I simply wanted to say that it would be nice for all Christians to celebrate the 'day' together...

Fondly,
In Christ our Lord,
Alice

I have no idea where you see that I am upset, cause I am not. I am just interested to learn what you meant. Since my sil's father is nominal Muslim, although he celebrates his religious feasts. And my brother does not go to celebrate their feasts with them. They are family, no? And it does not make any family better because they are Christian Protestant, or Muslim. As you say the party is a party and time to get together. But thank God there are 365 days in a year when we can get together and have home cooked meals. And sometime we have to choose between family and Christ. That's how it is and that's what Christ said: "He who loves his mother, father... more than Me is not worthy for Me" - please excuse the paraphrasing. Also we see this in the case of our martyrs when they did not follow the traditions and gatherings of their pagan families. They chose and chose well. I am not saying pagans are equal to Christians (although they are people afterall and we are ordered to love all people - and the martyrs loved their families but they had their loyalty to Christ), but since you present the case in a family angle I think that family is family even if they are atheists.

11-01-2008, 11:45 PM	#18
Freeptube Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 589 Senior Member	Dearest Nina, Oh dear, I am sorry that I made you upset, my sweet sister in Christ... What I meant was that just like mixed faith families all celebrate the Christmas day feast together (though not services), it would be nice to celebrate the day together, especially when there are small children involved. With many of my friends, they are celebrating two feasts, which I suppose is not so bad if you think of having two great home cooked meals! On the other hand, some of my mixed faith friends find it makes life easier because they don't have to decide which set of parents to go to for this particular celebration...they can go to both on the different days! (except when the dates fall together). This was not intended to mean *anything about religious services*. For instance, I remember this situation growing up....one of my mother's sisters became Anglican and her children were also Anglican. My grandmother and grandfather and the rest of the large family were Greek Orthodox. It was very nice on Christmas for all the cousins to gather at yiayia and papou's house together, despite our faith traditions being different. However, when Pascha came around, often they were not able to make it for 'Greek Easter' because they had already had their Easter so it became a Sunday feast that often eliminated one segment of the family. I simply wanted to say that it would be nice for all Christians to celebrate the 'day' together... Fondly, In Christ our Lord, Alice I have no idea where you see that I am upset, cause I am not. I am just interested to learn what you meant. Since my sil's father is nominal Muslim, although he celebrates his religious feasts. And my brother does not go to celebrate their feasts with them. They are family, no? And it does not make any family better because they are Christian Protestant, or Muslim. As you say the party is a party and time to get together. But thank God there are 365 days in a year when we can get together and have home cooked meals. And sometime we have to choose between family and Christ. That's how it is and that's what Christ said: "He who loves his mother, father... more than Me is not worthy for Me" - please excuse the paraphrasing. Also we see this in the case of our martyrs when they did not follow the traditions and gatherings of their pagan families. They chose and chose well. I am not saying pagans are equal to Christians (although they are people afterall and we are ordered to love all people - and the martyrs loved their families but they had their loyalty to Christ), but since you present the case in a family angle I think that family is family even if they are atheists.
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