Christmas Heritage--Featured Lenses

The Tradition of the Yule Log

This lens has links to the history of the Yule Log, lots of recipes for how to bake modern Yule Log Cakes, a video Yule Log to download for your iPod, where to find a Yule log screensaver and much more!

Christmas

The great High Holy Day of the year, second only to Easter for its importance. Yet Christmas has lost so much in our modern world. Here we will be exploring why Christmas has been so important in the past, why it continues to be important, and what C...

Amish Christmas

The Amish celebrate Christmas in the time honored Christian manner, with a clear focus on the birth of Christ. Like everything else, though, they bring a simplicity that was completely overwhelmed in the greater world. This lense gathers information...

Counting Down to Christmas

This will be a difficult Christmas for many of us because of the stress and strain put on us by the economy. We can help, I think by simplifying both our expectations and our celebrations. I hope that this lens will help you be less stressed and have...

Advent is The Season Before Christmas

Did you know that Christmas is preceded by an entire season devoted just to the preparation and anticipation of the great, holy event of Christmas? Advent, which means, He comes, is the liturgical season of four Sundays which precede Christmas. ...

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Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra

When I was a child I particularly loved this feast day because of its association to chocolate.  My mother was of Alsatian and German descent (with one Scots great-grandmother--her great-grandmother).  In many parts of Europe the feast of S...

The Jesse Tree as Part of Advent

 The Jesse Tree is a lovely Advent activity that helps tie Advent and Christmas together. It begins with a bare branch and one ornament per day. Ornaments made or purchased especially for this use can be added one day at a time.  It is like...

Father Christmas

In England Father Christmas makes the present giving rounds on Christmas Eve.  In Victorian England the figure of Father Christmas could be dressed in blue, green or brown as well as red.  He is depicted with a toy sack much like Santa Clau...

Christmas Creche, History and Traditions

This design is part of a photograph of one of two vintage creches which I own.  This one was given to me when I was six years old by Mama's aunt Ann.  It has a special place in my Christmas celebration.  I remember how carefully and te...

Silent Night, Holy Night

Silent Night is perhaps the most beloved of all Christmas Carols.   Contents of this lense are copyright 2006-2008 by Marguerite Manor.

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Cookie Cutter Collecting

My cookie cutter collection spans more than fifty years since I inherited my mother's cutters with just one or two that had belonged to her mother as well.  My favorites are those handmade of metal by family businesses around the country. ...

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