Merry Christmas everyone. Don’t forget to check out our Christmas Symbolism playlist of all the videos I made about Christmas over the years: ruclips.net/p/PLVX4HUUPrIY9MeGP5IILeRzu62Q1NPT4C
I’m a 39 year old husband and father of three I have in the past two years moved both of our mothers and my grandmother into our home. My wife and I are currently about 5-600 dollars short of making ends meet which the relatives have been able to supplement. We have had to give cookies and loaves of bread as gifts this year it has been difficult but I am grateful for being somewhat forced to celebrate the birth of Christ in a way that is more focused on Christ than materialism. ❤ Thank you Jesus Christ for your sacrifice and God bless you all this holiday season.
Thank you for bringing to the world the most important narrative of our lives and the universe. May God bless you, your family, your art, and your mission. I understand, your frustration in not “doing things twice”, believe me! I know! Jesus inspires me to remember…. Your 1000th time, is the first time for thousands! I thank you for referring to the videos in your library. Merry Christmas.
Thanks for all you do Jonathan. God willing I will be baptised this coming January 6, the old Eve of the Nativity. Thanks for helping me start to break through my atheist, materialist worldview and begin to understand the real world beyond all the atoms and stuff.
Seven years ago I set myself the task of illustrating the 9 lessons of the Lessons and Carols service as dioramas inside ostrich eggs ( there is a reason; it’s another story). I’m working on the Nativity this year, and was prompted to listen to Jonathan’s talk as I worked. Wow. My Joseph is cradling the exhausted Mary, who is nursing the infant Christ. He has a look of puzzlement and wonder……”What just happened?” I have the jug of wine and a broken loaf of bread ready to put at their feet. Now I see that the stonework needs to be extended upward into a more cavelike structure, and there needs to be a manger carved out of the rock, with swaddling cloths ready to receive the baby. Now I’ll have to check out the icons depicting the other lessons, to see what my unconscious slipped into those scenes! It’s usually months after completing a diorama that I begin to understand what it’s really about; I think Jonathan must know the feeling well. And……I won’t peek at his analysis of the two lessons left to go!
Thank you Jonathan. I tend to be more thinking invisibly ethereally floating up there in the sky and you bring this to earth which I’m not sure I like in the sense that somehow the miracle part goes away but when I put them both together, I think that’s what completes it. God bless you thank you merry Christmas!
“The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.” - G. K. Chesterton “Very Christian Democracy,” Christendom in Dublin
Everything in God's creation is real what is pointing to something that is more real. I call that the sacramentality of God's creation. I have spread a small area of zoysia grass over my whole entire front yard and even into the back which made me meditate upon many things such as the church, confession, the soul, sanctity, etcetera. I am Catholic and always enjoy your meditations upon icons and created things in stories in the scriptures. It's like we can see things that Protestants cannot. That's what frustrates me a lot whenever I talk to them
Merry Christmas Jonathan!! Thank you for sharing your wisdoms and observations, your videos always make me excited and full of gratitude for how amazingly grand, loving, and intelligent our Heavenly God is ❤
Picasso may have missed a calling as an iconographer? Pope JP2, created a Little Office BVM, for the jubilee year. It seems like a spiritual version of the Nativity Icon. The psalms, new testament readings, early fathers, and chosen teachings are powerful tools to communicate with my Jewish, Orthodox, Protestant, and other faith family. Icons do such a wonderful job of translating the timelessness, and transcendent majesty of God ❤. Thank you for your work and teaching. Have a blessed Christmas season, and joyful new year.
Merry Christmas! Thank you for sharing your view of reality and being able to verbalize it. I too looked at reality in the form of symbols and sometimes felt so misunderstood. Now I understand that I’m not that crazy. Maybe just a little bit haha. Thank you so much for the guidance you give. God bless to you and your family.
I was just listening to Christian choir Christmas music while making dinner. I was telling my husband about how some of the choir music uses the same words like “Agni’s Dei.” And I just realized that DEI spells GOD in Latin. I find that very fascinating and very much typical for the Enemy and how he does things.
An anchor of reality would be an anchor that came from the real it y. This anchor only holds us in reality if we cannot break the chain of causation. Reality is knowing too much of the past and future making us blind of what's happening in the present.
Youve taken such a thin slice out of the timeline of ancient Mediterranean history. You say the ass and ox represent the coming together of Jews and "foreigners". But how exactly? This symbolism represents The Great Mother worship. 2 different forms of this worship merging. Why don't you discuss this?
Christmas literally stands for Christ Mass, something Protestants wouldn't understand. Almost nothing pagan about Christmas the season, nor about Christ Himself. He conquered Rome and you're salty, get over it.
Thank you for bringing to the world the most important narrative of our lives and the universe. May God bless you, your family, your art, and your mission. I understand, your frustration in not “doing things twice”, believe me! I know! Jesus inspires me to remember…. Your 1000th time, is the first time for thousands! I thank you for referring to the videos in your library. Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas everyone. Don’t forget to check out our Christmas Symbolism playlist of all the videos I made about Christmas over the years: ruclips.net/p/PLVX4HUUPrIY9MeGP5IILeRzu62Q1NPT4C
@Jonathan Pageau this is your best explanation of the meaning of Christmas. Thank you for all you have done and will do.
Aaron
Merry Christmas Jonathan!!
I’m a 39 year old husband and father of three I have in the past two years moved both of our mothers and my grandmother into our home. My wife and I are currently about 5-600 dollars short of making ends meet which the relatives have been able to supplement. We have had to give cookies and loaves of bread as gifts this year it has been difficult but I am grateful for being somewhat forced to celebrate the birth of Christ in a way that is more focused on Christ than materialism. ❤ Thank you Jesus Christ for your sacrifice and
God bless you all this holiday season.
It's very admirable what you're doing for your family. Stay strong and keep the faith.
May God keep you and bless you.
God bless you and your family, what a wealth of love is yours, and your children are growing up with a beautiful model of family.
Thank you for bringing to the world the most important narrative of our lives and the universe. May God bless you, your family, your art, and your mission. I understand, your frustration in not “doing things twice”, believe me! I know! Jesus inspires me to remember…. Your 1000th time, is the first time for thousands! I thank you for referring to the videos in your library. Merry Christmas.
My husband just started carving icons. They’re amazing!
Carving? Icons are 2d and "painted".
Thanks for all you do Jonathan. God willing I will be baptised this coming January 6, the old Eve of the Nativity. Thanks for helping me start to break through my atheist, materialist worldview and begin to understand the real world beyond all the atoms and stuff.
The foundation of the world! Christ is born. Glorify Him.
Καλά Χριστούγεννα
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas. "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men."
Linksmų Kalėdų
Feliz Natal!
Natalis dominicus sit tibi felix et fortunatus
Thank you for re-posting on a wonderful day for it!
Merry Christmas 🎄
Seven years ago I set myself the task of illustrating the 9 lessons of the Lessons and Carols service as dioramas inside ostrich eggs ( there is a reason; it’s another story). I’m working on the Nativity this year, and was prompted to listen to Jonathan’s talk as I worked. Wow. My Joseph is cradling the exhausted Mary, who is nursing the infant Christ. He has a look of puzzlement and wonder……”What just happened?” I have the jug of wine and a broken loaf of bread ready to put at their feet. Now I see that the stonework needs to be extended upward into a more cavelike structure, and there needs to be a manger carved out of the rock, with swaddling cloths ready to receive the baby. Now I’ll have to check out the icons depicting the other lessons, to see what my unconscious slipped into those scenes! It’s usually months after completing a diorama that I begin to understand what it’s really about; I think Jonathan must know the feeling well. And……I won’t peek at his analysis of the two lessons left to go!
I would love to see the eggs you’re working on!
Thank you Jonathan. I tend to be more thinking invisibly ethereally floating up there in the sky and you bring this to earth which I’m not sure I like in the sense that somehow the miracle part goes away but when I put them both together, I think that’s what completes it. God bless you thank you merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas from the Netherlands
Merry Christmas ✨🙏🏼✨ Thank you for all that you do ✨🎁✨
“The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.”
- G. K. Chesterton “Very Christian Democracy,” Christendom in Dublin
Just watched and shared the older post.
Christmas has never been explained to me like that before. I saved this and will rewatch this to see if I catch anything else.
Everything in God's creation is real what is pointing to something that is more real. I call that the sacramentality of God's creation. I have spread a small area of zoysia grass over my whole entire front yard and even into the back which made me meditate upon many things such as the church, confession, the soul, sanctity, etcetera. I am Catholic and always enjoy your meditations upon icons and created things in stories in the scriptures. It's like we can see things that Protestants cannot. That's what frustrates me a lot whenever I talk to them
Thank you my friend I really needed to hear this 🙏 ✌️
Have a blessed Feast of the Nativity, everyone!
Thank you for reposting this. Merry Christmas!
Very clear, and thank you for your work
Great idea to repost. I have quite deepened my understanding since last time. Thank you.
Jesus, what a privilege to be able to listen to this.
Merry Christmas Jonathan!! Thank you for sharing your wisdoms and observations, your videos always make me excited and full of gratitude for how amazingly grand, loving, and intelligent our Heavenly God is ❤
Feliz Navidad!!
Merry Christmas. Christ the Savior is Born! Take care all!🎉🎉🎉🎁🎀🎁⛪️🌟❄️❄️❄️🐑☃️⛄️☃️❄️❄️
Merry Christmas 🙏🏻
Merry Christmas ☦️
Christ is born. Glorify him!
Christ is born! Merry Christmas to all 🎄
Merry Christmas Johnathan
Merry Christmas! :)
Picasso may have missed a calling as an iconographer? Pope JP2, created a Little Office BVM, for the jubilee year. It seems like a spiritual version of the Nativity Icon. The psalms, new testament readings, early fathers, and chosen teachings are powerful tools to communicate with my Jewish, Orthodox, Protestant, and other faith family. Icons do such a wonderful job of translating the timelessness, and transcendent majesty of God ❤. Thank you for your work and teaching. Have a blessed Christmas season, and joyful new year.
Merry Christmass everyone
Merry Christmas! Thank you for sharing your view of reality and being able to verbalize it. I too looked at reality in the form of symbols and sometimes felt so misunderstood. Now I understand that I’m not that crazy. Maybe just a little bit haha. Thank you so much for the guidance you give. God bless to you and your family.
Wow🙏🏻 merry christmas
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Jonathan!
I was just listening to Christian choir Christmas music while making dinner. I was telling my husband about how some of the choir music uses the same words like “Agni’s Dei.” And I just realized that DEI spells GOD in Latin. I find that very fascinating and very much typical for the Enemy and how he does things.
It means lamb of God❤
Thanks
thank you for resharing this!
Perfect. ❤
"Youre not allowed to eat...donkeys"
Good catching yourself there jonathan 13:59
...wunderbar...
🙋🏻♀️so any symbolic connection mentioned by anyone in regards to Jesus being born in a food trough and the Eucharist?
Yes. The manger is a table. Christ is born at the Orthodox Eucharist upon a table.
How sweet is our Christ
🎉
The axe is laid unto the root of the trees 🪓
WOO🎉
I sent you an email about the meaning of the parable of the shrewd manager
The troff could be viewed as the new covenant 😮
An anchor of reality would be an anchor that came from the real it y. This anchor only holds us in reality if we cannot break the chain of causation. Reality is knowing too much of the past and future making us blind of what's happening in the present.
Did you take your meds?
The mountain nativity would be soo cooool!, with Ibex instead of oxen and asses
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It is pronounced the same: December 25th the Son (Jesus) is born - the Sun is born (again)
Youve taken such a thin slice out of the timeline of ancient Mediterranean history. You say the ass and ox represent the coming together of Jews and "foreigners". But how exactly? This symbolism represents The Great Mother worship. 2 different forms of this worship merging. Why don't you discuss this?
Meh. Pagan appropriation and naked commerce isn't an "anchor" it's an absurdity.
Christmas literally stands for Christ Mass, something Protestants wouldn't understand. Almost nothing pagan about Christmas the season, nor about Christ Himself. He conquered Rome and you're salty, get over it.
correct in essance
Point to me your ontology that isn't an absurdity
Thank you for bringing to the world the most important narrative of our lives and the universe. May God bless you, your family, your art, and your mission. I understand, your frustration in not “doing things twice”, believe me! I know! Jesus inspires me to remember…. Your 1000th time, is the first time for thousands! I thank you for referring to the videos in your library. Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas ☦️🙏🏽
Merry Christmas 🎄 😊