Christmas Day.Thefeast of our Saviour’s nativity was undoubtedly celebrated in the early ages of Christianity. It is namedChristmas-dayfrom the Latin “Christi missa,” the mass of Christ, and thence the Roman Catholic liturgy is called their Missal, or Mass book. About the year 500 this day became generally observed in the Catholic church.Christmas Boxes.The mass was called Christmas, the box, Christmas-box, for the collecting money that the priests may say masses to the Saints for those who presented them.
Christmas Day.Thefeast of our Saviour’s nativity was undoubtedly celebrated in the early ages of Christianity. It is namedChristmas-dayfrom the Latin “Christi missa,” the mass of Christ, and thence the Roman Catholic liturgy is called their Missal, or Mass book. About the year 500 this day became generally observed in the Catholic church.Christmas Boxes.The mass was called Christmas, the box, Christmas-box, for the collecting money that the priests may say masses to the Saints for those who presented them.
Thefeast of our Saviour’s nativity was undoubtedly celebrated in the early ages of Christianity. It is namedChristmas-dayfrom the Latin “Christi missa,” the mass of Christ, and thence the Roman Catholic liturgy is called their Missal, or Mass book. About the year 500 this day became generally observed in the Catholic church.
Christmas Boxes.The mass was called Christmas, the box, Christmas-box, for the collecting money that the priests may say masses to the Saints for those who presented them.