Feast Days
Dec. 8th, 2007 08:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theatokosIn other news, today is the Roman Catholic feast day of the Immaculate Conception. This is 9 months before Mary's birthday and it acknowledges her conception, free from the stain of Original Sin and in perfect redemption - a sign of things to come.
If the Immaculate Conception and Original Sin weird you out, as they do me, you can always celebrate the Feast of the Conception of St. Anne (Mary's mother) tomorrow. This is the Eastern Orthodox feast day celebrating the conception of Mary, the Theotokos. No belief in Original Sin or stain or Immaculate Conception required.
I am certainly going to have to do a little something for my girl. These sorts of holidays always make me wish I had a honest to god tradition of my own. I get tired making it all up as I go along. Syncretism is hard work.
If the Immaculate Conception and Original Sin weird you out, as they do me, you can always celebrate the Feast of the Conception of St. Anne (Mary's mother) tomorrow. This is the Eastern Orthodox feast day celebrating the conception of Mary, the Theotokos. No belief in Original Sin or stain or Immaculate Conception required.
I am certainly going to have to do a little something for my girl. These sorts of holidays always make me wish I had a honest to god tradition of my own. I get tired making it all up as I go along. Syncretism is hard work.