Blinded By the Light - The Occult of Roman Catholicism

ìThe earliest record of the recognition of Dec. 25 as a church

festival is in the Philocalian Calendar (Örepresenting Roman

practice in 336).î 5

It was one of the so-called Christian leaders that helped in the compromise.

ìBishop Liberius of Rome ordered in 354 that all Christians

celebrate the birth of the Christ child on that day. Scholars

believe that the bishop chose this date so that Christians,

still members of an ëoutlaw religioní in the eyes of the

Romans, could celebrate the birth of their Savior without

danger of revealing their religious conviction, while their

Roman neighbors celebrated another event.î 6

There is even more evidence of the melding of lukewarm Christianity and the
Pagan rites of Rome. At the end of the fourth century the Bishop of
Constantinople, St. John Chrysostom wrote:

ìOn this day also the Birthday of Christ was lately fixed at

Rome in order that while the heathen were busy with their

profane ceremonies, the Christians might perform their

sacred rites undisturbed. They call this (December 25th),

the Birthday of the Invincible One (Mithras); but who is so

invincible as the Lord? They call it the Birthday of the Solar

Disk, but Christ is the Sun of Righteousness.î

We also have the following:

ìÖaccording to many authorities, [Christmas] was not

celebrated in the first centuries of the Christian Church, as

the Christian usage in general was to celebrate the death of

remarkable persons rather than their birthÖ[But] a feast

was established in memory of [the birth of Christ] in the fourth

century. In the fifth century the Western Church ordered it

to be celebrated forever on the day of the old Roman Feast

of the birth of Sol, as no certain knowledge of the day of

Christís birth existed.î 7

ìIn a famous letter to Augustine, Pope Gregory directs the

great missionary to accommodate the ceremonies of the

Christian worship as much as possible to those of the

heathen, that the people might not be startled at the

change, and in particular the Pope advised Augustine to

allow converts to kill and eat at the Christmas festival a

great number of oxen to the glory of God, as they had

formerly done to the Devil.î 8 (emphasis mine)