One crucial practice that occurs during Advent, which needs to be recovered, is the celebration of St. Nicholas Day.
It commemorates the patron saint of children and at one point was a major celebration in Christendom (replete with boys dressing up as bishops).
The stockings/shoes are meant to come out on this day and only through a confusion became associated with Christmas.
Santa Claus was the invention of America imitating the celebration of St. Nicholas by the earlier Dutch settlers, approaching its present form in 1822 through the poem, “The Night before Christmas.”
It is time to oppose Santa Claus’ dominance of Christ’s birthday and to reassert the celebration of St. Nichols in early December, the 6th to be precise.
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