HOW DO YOU THINK CHRISTMAS MUST BE CELEBRATED?

The key to Christmas is to remember what it is supposed to celebrate: the birth of Jesus Christ. If it weren’t for Christ, there would be no Christmas.
And the key to keeping Christ at the center of our Christmas is to keep our eyes on Him, and not let ourselves be distracted by everything else that is going on. I know that’s easier said than done; Christmas has grown increasingly busy, and Christ easily gets crowded out by all the activities and the stress on material things.

But as your family celebrates Christmas, take time to turn your attention to Christ. Go to church as a family, and take time also to read one of the Bible’s accounts of Christ’s birth, perhaps around the dinner table. 
Most of all, stop and reflect on why Jesus’ birth is so important. Is it simply because He was a great man or was He more than that? The Bible says He was God in human flesh. 

people now a days take christmas to stress and run from here to there and sometimes forget the real meaning of the celebration, so I think that people need to take it easy and relax and live the real meaning of christmas.
I think that christmas is a day to be with the family and be happy and remember beautiful things, to give a hug to others and give thanks to god for everything he have gave us.

CHRISTMAS- COMMERCIAL DATE OR A RELIGIOUS PRACTICE?

Among all the festivals and holidays of the Christian Church year, Christmas remains the most observed and most popular. Of course, much of that popularity, especially in the West, is due to the commercial promotion of the holiday. In many Protestant churches through the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Christmas was noted but not really celebrated.  While observed in some church liturgies, there was very little in the way of gift giving and family celebration that marks the season today.  In fact, until relatively recently, in the middle to latter nineteenth century, Christmas was a regular work day.  In many areas of the world today, it remains a comparatively insignificant holiday even among Christians. Still, the Christmas story captures the heart in a way that transcends all the commercial hype.

The degree to which the holiday is valued in Christian culture sometimes goes beyond the other most Holy Day of Christianity, Easter or Resurrection Sunday. There is something about human nature that would rather focus on the birth of babies than on the torture and death of accused criminals! Especially for the young, the story of Christmas with all the images of angels and a young mother, of shepherds and a stable, of wise men and royal intrigue make the season captivating. Perhaps that is part of the intent of the different ways the story is told in the Gospel accounts, as well as the preservation of so many traditions in the Church surrounding this holiday.

Historically, Christmas commemorates the birth of Jesus of Nazareth to a young maiden from Galilee. Theologically, Christmas is the celebration of the incarnation of God in Jesus the Christ, the self-revelation of God to the world in human form for the reconciliation of humanity to Himself.