Heart of the City by Steenz for April 15, 2017
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Transcript:
Heart: Yesterday, mrs. angelini took me to church and we prayed over "stations of the cross"...pictures of jesus being punished and crucified and put in a tomb. Heart: Then today we dye eggs all sorts of colors and tomorrow we get baskets full of chocolate bunnies and jelly beans and marshmallow chickies. Dean: Yeah...holidays can be pretty weird. Heart: but it's best not to ask questions if jelly beans and marshmallow chickies are at the end.
There’s similar mixing of Christian and ancient pagan traditions at Christmas. The early Church tried to incorporate and adapt the pagan holidays the people were accustomed to celebrating, in order to encourage more conversions and faithfulness.