I had always thought that the practice was harmless, except if it means that the birthday boy or girl gets to commit murder or even lesser crimes in order to properly commemorate the "happy" occasion. I think the custom is of more recent origin. Obviously there is no Tradition or Scripture to support birthday celebrations. So it is not good enough to suppress the now nearly universal modern custom of birthday celebrations? To be saintly, we must positively curse the day we were born?ĭo, or did saints undergo an unhappy kind of ceremony in which they annually remembered with heartfelt regret, the accursed day of their entrance in to this world? "But the saints not only do not celebrate a festival on their birth days, but, filled with the Holy Spirit, they curse that day." John Patrick Charles Scribner and Sons, 5th ed. Than that famous Pharaoh for by the latter on his birthday feast a chiefīaker is killed but by the former, John. Scripture that a birthday was kept by a righteous man. Has told that the worthless man who loves things connected with birth keepsīirthday festivals and we, taking this suggestion from him, find in no Us has observed what is written in Genesis about the birthday of Pharaoh, and They dance so that their movements please that word. The above contribution is not the only time OrigenĬommented on birthdays from his commentary on Matthew’s Gospel we read:Īnd on birthdays, when the lawless word reigns over them, Gary Wayne Barkley Catholic University of America Press Killed "the chief baker,” Herod, the holy prophet John "in prison’”īut the saints not only do not celebrate a festival on their birth days, but,įilled with the Holy Spirit, they curse that day. Them stained the festival of his birth by shedding human blood. Of his birth with a festival, and in the New Testament, Herod. Indeed we find in the Old Testament Pharaoh, king of Egypt, celebrating the day Only sinners rejoice over this kind of birthday. No one is found to have had joy on the day of the birth of The saints is found to have celebrated a festive day or a great feast on theĭay of his birth. That it has not come from the thought to any of the saints not one from all One day.” And that you may know that there is something great in this and such Whether male or female is not "clean from filth although his life is of Of the above passage-the following selection is the germane portion to ourīut Scripture also declares that one himself who is born I have a copy of Gary Wayne Barkley’s English translation Not saints, celebrate their birthday.(Vol. viii in Migne, P.G., XII, 495) that in the Scriptures sinners alone, Glancing perhaps at the discreditable imperial Natalitia, asserts (in Irenaeus and Tertullian omit it from their lists of feasts Origen, From that entry, we read:Ĭhristmas was not among the earliest festivals of theĬhurch. You never gonna see him again, hopefully.In combox of my previous post, I linked to the CatholicĮncyclopedia entry: Christmas. “I think dating in high school is a waste of time, to be honest with you. Requesting his daughter to not be committed while in high school, the former 11-time All-Star wanted Christiana to go to college, get a job, and be an independent woman. Lastly, the 1993 MVP expressed his aversion to high school dating. Why can’t you be nice?’ I’m like ‘Was I not nice? What do you mean I was not nice? That’s the nicest I could be to a boy who’s coming here trying to hook-up with my daughter.” Afterwards, my daughter comes screaming at me ‘You’re such an a**. If you need anything, let me know.’ Then I leave. “When they came to the house, I said ‘Hey, I’m Christiana’s dad, welcome to my house. While the analyst believes he treated the boy well, his daughter called him an “a**” for not being nice enough. The NBA Hall-Of-Famer even narrated an encounter he had with Christiana’s “hook-up”. “You know what, it’s so weird when your daughter has crushes on people and like uhh cause it’s my baby girl.”
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