Decorating a Christmas tree is one of the most Christmassy things we can do! But are we doing it because we're stuck following old pagan customs?

LINKS:
Icon of St. Boniface by the hand of Julia Hayes from Ikonographics: https://www.ikonographics.net
Our video about Christmas Day origins:    • Did Christians steal Christmas Day fr...  
An article on Christmas, the section on Christmas trees adds some more information to the Christian origins of the tree: https://www.thegoodshepherd.org.au/wh...
An article about Christmas trees: https://relevantmagazine.com/current/...
An article about Prince Albert, Queen Victoria, and Christmas trees: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/soc...
Jonathan Pageau on 'the misguided rise of paganism' and what it says about how people are missing traditional, symbolic, Christianity with a cosmic vision:    • The Misguided Rise of Paganism | Jona...  
A compilation of nice Christmas trees:    • The World’s Most Amazing Christmas Trees  
A video from ‪@JonathanPageau‬ and Fr Andrew Damick on pagan practices in Christianity:    • Redeeming Pagan Symbolism - with Fr. ...  
Yule logs and Yule Tide: https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/article...

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