CHRISTMAS DECORATING ONCE SUSPECT
Decorating the tree and the home was not always an innocent pastime. In the very early days of the Christian Church the Popes took a cautious stand on the matter of decorations and festivities. They felt that some of the emerging customs were too pagan in origin. The church gradually accepted and blessed the practice of decorating both
the house of God and the Christian home wifh plants and flowers on tlje feast of the Nativity. a Pope Gregory I (6Q4 A.D.) in a letter to St. Augustine of Canterbury advised him to permit, aqd even to encourage, harnpless popular custorrjs which seemed non-pagqn and natural, and could ije given Christmas interprptation. i
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Taupo Times, Volume 19, Issue 98, 17 December 1970, Page 7 (Supplement)
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117CHRISTMAS DECORATING ONCE SUSPECT Taupo Times, Volume 19, Issue 98, 17 December 1970, Page 7 (Supplement)
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