Christmas: The Anchor of Reality

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  • @JonathanPageau
    @JonathanPageau  Місяць тому +68

    Merry Christmas everyone. Don’t forget to check out our Christmas Symbolism playlist of all the videos I made about Christmas over the years: ua-cam.com/play/PLVX4HUUPrIY9MeGP5IILeRzu62Q1NPT4C.html

    • @aaroncarmean2527
      @aaroncarmean2527 Місяць тому +2

      @Jonathan Pageau this is your best explanation of the meaning of Christmas. Thank you for all you have done and will do.
      Aaron

    • @rosefincher7631
      @rosefincher7631 Місяць тому

      Merry Christmas Jonathan!!

  • @Wanderinwonder427
    @Wanderinwonder427 Місяць тому +74

    I’m a 39 year old husband and father of three I have in the past two years moved both of our mothers and my grandmother into our home. My wife and I are currently about 5-600 dollars short of making ends meet which the relatives have been able to supplement. We have had to give cookies and loaves of bread as gifts this year it has been difficult but I am grateful for being somewhat forced to celebrate the birth of Christ in a way that is more focused on Christ than materialism. ❤ Thank you Jesus Christ for your sacrifice and
    God bless you all this holiday season.

    • @wokeisweak
      @wokeisweak Місяць тому +5

      It's very admirable what you're doing for your family. Stay strong and keep the faith.

    • @abaker4692
      @abaker4692 Місяць тому +5

      May God keep you and bless you.

    • @banaabekwegirl5731
      @banaabekwegirl5731 Місяць тому +5

      God bless you and your family, what a wealth of love is yours, and your children are growing up with a beautiful model of family.

    • @MiaogisTeas
      @MiaogisTeas Місяць тому

      It's your duty as a man to ensure you're both strong enough to protect, and capable enough to provide for your family. You cannot accept this situation with defeat. You must earn more money.
      No one ever "scrimped and saved" themselves to prosperity.

    • @MiaogisTeas
      @MiaogisTeas Місяць тому

      ​@@wokeisweakthere's nothing admirable in being unable to provide security and stability for your children. He's failing and needs to do something quickly to rectify it.

  • @yolandaa.trevinophd6312
    @yolandaa.trevinophd6312 Місяць тому +68

    Thank you for bringing to the world the most important narrative of our lives and the universe. May God bless you, your family, your art, and your mission. I understand, your frustration in not “doing things twice”, believe me! I know! Jesus inspires me to remember…. Your 1000th time, is the first time for thousands! I thank you for referring to the videos in your library. Merry Christmas.

  • @MRizzio
    @MRizzio Місяць тому +21

    Jonathan, I thank you for keeping me company this Christmas morn. I feel you are a long lost son.

  • @knightrider585
    @knightrider585 Місяць тому +21

    Thanks for all you do Jonathan. God willing I will be baptised this coming January 6, the old Eve of the Nativity. Thanks for helping me start to break through my atheist, materialist worldview and begin to understand the real world beyond all the atoms and stuff.

    • @francefradet2116
      @francefradet2116 Місяць тому

      No, it's the eve of Epiphany. When the Magi arrived. Two different things.

    • @knightrider585
      @knightrider585 Місяць тому +1

      @francefradet2116 It's Christmas eve on the Julian calendar

  • @reyno6826
    @reyno6826 Місяць тому +30

    My husband just started carving icons. They’re amazing!

    • @stormshadowctf
      @stormshadowctf Місяць тому

      Carving? Icons are 2d and "painted".

    • @LKRaider
      @LKRaider Місяць тому +4

      @@stormshadowctfyou are perusing the channel of an icon carver

    • @MarcAupiais
      @MarcAupiais Місяць тому +1

      ​Icons are carved. Jonathan is an icon carver.

    • @MarcAupiais
      @MarcAupiais Місяць тому

      ​@stormshadowctf Jonathan Pageau is a French-Canadian icon carver, UA-camr, and public speaker known for his work in symbolism, religion, and the Orthodox faith. He is the editor of the Orthodox Arts Journal, host of the Symbolic World blog and podcast, and founder of Symbolic World Press. Pageau's background includes studying Painting and Drawing at Concordia University in Montreal, where he initially engaged with postmodern art before turning to traditional Christian imagery.
      His disillusionment with contemporary art led him to specialize in carved iconography in the Eastern Orthodox tradition. He has taught seminars on wood carving and iconography and has been involved in exhibitions and publications. Pageau's work extends to interpreting deep patterns in stories and culture, particularly through the lens of symbolism. He has gained recognition through collaborations with notable figures like Jordan Peterson and has published works like "God's Dog: Monster" and "The Tale of Snow White and the Widow Queen" through his own publishing house.

  • @peteroleary9447
    @peteroleary9447 Місяць тому +24

    The foundation of the world! Christ is born. Glorify Him.

  • @DCWoodWorking
    @DCWoodWorking Місяць тому +2

    Merry Christmas! Christ is born! Glorify him!

  • @πατριχορ
    @πατριχορ Місяць тому +28

    Καλά Χριστούγεννα
    Merry Christmas

  • @LexMa1520
    @LexMa1520 Місяць тому +3

    Christmas has never been explained to me like that before. I saved this and will rewatch this to see if I catch anything else.

    • @francefradet2116
      @francefradet2116 Місяць тому

      Catholic Christmas masses (there are three) are described as "solemn" here in Spain, because being fiercely Marian (venerating the Blessed Virgin Mary) Spanish Catholics know she knew her son would suffer.

  • @johannakunze3300
    @johannakunze3300 Місяць тому +5

    Great idea to repost. I have quite deepened my understanding since last time. Thank you.
    Jesus, what a privilege to be able to listen to this.

  • @joolz5747
    @joolz5747 Місяць тому +7

    Thank you Jonathan. I tend to be more thinking invisibly ethereally floating up there in the sky and you bring this to earth which I’m not sure I like in the sense that somehow the miracle part goes away but when I put them both together, I think that’s what completes it. God bless you thank you merry Christmas!

  • @homelesseconomist
    @homelesseconomist Місяць тому +5

    Magnificent video. Explains so much

  • @thewizzla
    @thewizzla Місяць тому +4

    Merry Christmas. Christ the Savior is Born! Take care all!🎉🎉🎉🎁🎀🎁⛪️🌟❄️❄️❄️🐑☃️⛄️☃️❄️❄️

  • @marilynmelzian7370
    @marilynmelzian7370 Місяць тому

    I had the honor of photographing the interiors of medieval churches in Cyprus. The walls were covered with paintings. One of them was an icon of the birth of Jesus with these same elements. There were many others which showed that same compression of events, almost a still movie. The paintings were stunning.

  • @densaakaldte1
    @densaakaldte1 Місяць тому +3

    Christ is born! Merry Christmas to all 🎄

  • @michellegibson2904
    @michellegibson2904 Місяць тому +7

    Thank you for re-posting on a wonderful day for it!

  • @stephaniechan4714
    @stephaniechan4714 Місяць тому +5

    Have a blessed Feast of the Nativity, everyone!

  • @thebealers2102
    @thebealers2102 Місяць тому +3

    Very clear, and thank you for your work

  • @gabrielsyme4180
    @gabrielsyme4180 Місяць тому +23

    “The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.”
    - G. K. Chesterton “Very Christian Democracy,” Christendom in Dublin

  • @susanparker767
    @susanparker767 Місяць тому +6

    Merry Christmas ✨🙏🏼✨ Thank you for all that you do ✨🎁✨

  • @javieralcantar9271
    @javieralcantar9271 Місяць тому +12

    Merry Christmas 🎄

  • @martinjoseferreyra1961
    @martinjoseferreyra1961 Місяць тому +6

    Feliz Navidad!!

  • @barbaraseville4139
    @barbaraseville4139 Місяць тому +5

    Seven years ago I set myself the task of illustrating the 9 lessons of the Lessons and Carols service as dioramas inside ostrich eggs ( there is a reason; it’s another story). I’m working on the Nativity this year, and was prompted to listen to Jonathan’s talk as I worked. Wow. My Joseph is cradling the exhausted Mary, who is nursing the infant Christ. He has a look of puzzlement and wonder……”What just happened?” I have the jug of wine and a broken loaf of bread ready to put at their feet. Now I see that the stonework needs to be extended upward into a more cavelike structure, and there needs to be a manger carved out of the rock, with swaddling cloths ready to receive the baby. Now I’ll have to check out the icons depicting the other lessons, to see what my unconscious slipped into those scenes! It’s usually months after completing a diorama that I begin to understand what it’s really about; I think Jonathan must know the feeling well. And……I won’t peek at his analysis of the two lessons left to go!

    • @kathleensafi5424
      @kathleensafi5424 Місяць тому +2

      I would love to see the eggs you’re working on!

  • @emilybertola8553
    @emilybertola8553 Місяць тому +3

    Merry Christmas Jonathan!! Thank you for sharing your wisdoms and observations, your videos always make me excited and full of gratitude for how amazingly grand, loving, and intelligent our Heavenly God is ❤

  • @francestaylor9156
    @francestaylor9156 Місяць тому +2

    Merry Christmas! Thank you for sharing your view of reality and being able to verbalize it. I too looked at reality in the form of symbols and sometimes felt so misunderstood. Now I understand that I’m not that crazy. Maybe just a little bit haha. Thank you so much for the guidance you give. God bless to you and your family.

  • @pablogarcia555
    @pablogarcia555 Місяць тому +2

    Thank you my friend I really needed to hear this 🙏 ✌️

  • @Jfelix531
    @Jfelix531 Місяць тому +5

    Merry Christmas ☦️

  • @tonyl3762
    @tonyl3762 Місяць тому +5

    Just watched and shared the older post.

  • @marlou169
    @marlou169 Місяць тому +5

    Merry Christmas from the Netherlands

  • @danielk6878
    @danielk6878 Місяць тому +5

    Everything in God's creation is real what is pointing to something that is more real. I call that the sacramentality of God's creation. I have spread a small area of zoysia grass over my whole entire front yard and even into the back which made me meditate upon many things such as the church, confession, the soul, sanctity, etcetera. I am Catholic and always enjoy your meditations upon icons and created things in stories in the scriptures. It's like we can see things that Protestants cannot. That's what frustrates me a lot whenever I talk to them

    • @chasecorrigan6596
      @chasecorrigan6596 Місяць тому

      I grew up nondenominational. Became an atheist. Life got hard now I’m searching. What I’m realizing is how similar of a world view the Christian’s and atheists have. Christians I grew up with I mean. They claim to be spiritual, but see the world exactly as the atheists do, pure materialism. As I’ve had discussions with Catholics and a lot with Hindus the philosophical thought is much much deeper. This discussion is hinting at the dualism built into so many world views. When what’s hidden is the nondualism.

  • @uniamipresentlee5777
    @uniamipresentlee5777 Місяць тому +1

    Gloria! In Excelsis Deo! Gr8 One Brother❤🙏🏽❤️‍🔥🎄🌈🌌💫🔯🕎

  • @simhthmss
    @simhthmss Місяць тому +4

    Christ is born. Glorify him!

  • @marthap4833
    @marthap4833 Місяць тому

    Thanks!

  • @spanglestein66
    @spanglestein66 Місяць тому +2

    Merry Christmas to you and yours ❤️🙌🏻🇬🇧🙌🏻🙏🏻🏥🙏🏻⚡️

  • @JayBThomas
    @JayBThomas Місяць тому +5

    Merry Christmas 🙏🏻

  • @highpitchnoise
    @highpitchnoise Місяць тому

    Great way to spend this day with my Bible-geek family.
    Jesus is a meal for us to experience.

  • @betterdaysahead3746
    @betterdaysahead3746 Місяць тому +2

    Thank you for reposting this. Merry Christmas!

  • @CAKirk
    @CAKirk Місяць тому +3

    Picasso may have missed a calling as an iconographer? Pope JP2, created a Little Office BVM, for the jubilee year. It seems like a spiritual version of the Nativity Icon. The psalms, new testament readings, early fathers, and chosen teachings are powerful tools to communicate with my Jewish, Orthodox, Protestant, and other faith family. Icons do such a wonderful job of translating the timelessness, and transcendent majesty of God ❤. Thank you for your work and teaching. Have a blessed Christmas season, and joyful new year.

  • @danielbautista74
    @danielbautista74 Місяць тому +3

    Merry Christmas! :)

  • @henkverhaeren3759
    @henkverhaeren3759 Місяць тому +4

    Merry Christmass everyone

  • @uniamipresentlee5777
    @uniamipresentlee5777 Місяць тому +1

    Good One Brother❤🙏🏽❤️‍🔥🎄🌈🌌💫🔯🕎

  • @SailaV1
    @SailaV1 Місяць тому

    Tremendous Video Jonathan! Thank you for your works!!!

  • @SiccazHD
    @SiccazHD Місяць тому +4

    Wow🙏🏻 merry christmas

  • @user-rj5ld9gk6u
    @user-rj5ld9gk6u Місяць тому +2

    Perfect. ❤

  • @kittyhendriks4556
    @kittyhendriks4556 Місяць тому

    Thank you for posting this again, otherwise I would have missed it! Merry Christmas!

  • @joem8496
    @joem8496 Місяць тому +3

    Merry Christmas Johnathan

  • @oscarmcfadden6718
    @oscarmcfadden6718 Місяць тому +1

    Merry Christmas!

  • @francestaylor9156
    @francestaylor9156 Місяць тому +1

    I was just listening to Christian choir Christmas music while making dinner. I was telling my husband about how some of the choir music uses the same words like “Agni’s Dei.” And I just realized that DEI spells GOD in Latin. I find that very fascinating and very much typical for the Enemy and how he does things.

  • @ALLHEART_
    @ALLHEART_ Місяць тому

    I love you.

  • @BeyondSeraphim
    @BeyondSeraphim Місяць тому +1

    Merry Christmas Jonathan!

  • @quickestlaughs
    @quickestlaughs Місяць тому

    Excellent videoExcellent video

  • @artcanhelp
    @artcanhelp Місяць тому

    thank you for resharing this!

  • @Joe-ln4nj
    @Joe-ln4nj Місяць тому

    How to learn carving Orthodox Art from you 🙏? Amazing video and amazing art work. Thank you so much.

  • @ibelieve3111
    @ibelieve3111 Місяць тому

    Thanks

  • @cito2820
    @cito2820 Місяць тому

    Please, please explore the archetypes and providences at play in the new Nosferatu movie. I’d love to hear you review it!

  • @wintermooonwolf
    @wintermooonwolf Місяць тому +1

    ...wunderbar...

  • @olgaolga4193
    @olgaolga4193 Місяць тому

    Merry Christmas, Jonathan, and thank you for the interesting information in the video. I also found interesting the questions from the public. I would also like to ask you: do the angels on the right keep towels in their hands, or is there a symbolism behind that, too? Thank you!

  • @streamscounselling9501
    @streamscounselling9501 Місяць тому

    Thank you for these rich insights. Is there a connection between the doors of death on which Christ is standing and the two tablets of the 10 commandments?

  • @SethPleasants
    @SethPleasants Місяць тому

    I wish I could fully understand what he is trying to say. I know in my heart that what Jonathan is trying to say is true but it's like when a word is on the tip of your tongue but you just can't quite grasp it. I pray it will come to me. I have been raised a christian and have been following in delight as I see the world seem to reconsider these truths. I understand on an intellectual level but I just can't seem to understand exactly what he is saying here 28:56 although I know it will be delightful once I do.

  • @gracenroses7471
    @gracenroses7471 Місяць тому +4

    🙋🏻‍♀️so any symbolic connection mentioned by anyone in regards to Jesus being born in a food trough and the Eucharist?

    • @heyokaoverdashelly2kangel945
      @heyokaoverdashelly2kangel945 Місяць тому

      @Skd92g Imagine if he actually taste like vinegar

    • @travisgonzales4432
      @travisgonzales4432 Місяць тому

      In a town that means House of Bread. Our Lord spent his first moments on earth supported by the wood of the manager. He spent the last moments of his earthly life, supported by the same substance on the cross. Born in a cave of stone, He was laid in a sepulcher after his death, and willed that He remain with us on the altar stones.

  • @devonnorris1586
    @devonnorris1586 Місяць тому

    WOO🎉

  • @TjJd-f8m
    @TjJd-f8m Місяць тому +1

    "Youre not allowed to eat...donkeys"
    Good catching yourself there jonathan 13:59

  • @chasecorrigan6596
    @chasecorrigan6596 Місяць тому

    I feel like Pageau gets so close to Nondualism, but doesn’t quite explore it enough. The Catholic mystics were willing to. And to me that’s where the lights come on. That’s where it all connects.

  • @AugustasKunc
    @AugustasKunc Місяць тому

    🙏

  • @bobaffair
    @bobaffair Місяць тому

    Would like to hear your views on this odd tradition - The tradition of the Kallikantzaroi (Καλλικάντζαροι) is a fascinating aspect of Greek folklore, particularly tied to the Twelve Days of Christmas (December 25 to January 6). According to legend, these mischievous and impish creatures live underground, spending their time trying to saw through the “world tree” or pillar that holds up the earth. Their goal is to collapse the world into chaos.
    However, their efforts are perpetually interrupted every year when Christmas arrives. During this time, they ascend to the surface to cause havoc among humans, playing pranks and generally creating mischief. The Kallikantzaroi are thought to stay on earth until Epiphany (January 6), when the Great Blessing of the Waters banishes them back underground.
    Characteristics of the Kallikantzaroi
    • Appearance: They are typically described as small, grotesque, and hairy creatures, resembling goblins or gnomes.
    • Behavior: They are mischievous rather than malicious, delighting in teasing people, stealing food, and playing tricks.
    • Tree Cutting: While they are on earth, their work of cutting the tree is paused. Once they return underground after Epiphany, they find that the tree has miraculously healed itself, and they must start over.
    Protection Against Them
    People in villages traditionally protected themselves from the Kallikantzaroi through rituals and superstitions, such as:
    • Burning a Yule log: Keeping a fire burning in the hearth throughout the Twelve Days of Christmas to ward off the goblins.
    • Placing garlic or holy water: These were thought to repel the creatures.
    • Hanging pork or a black-handled knife: These objects were believed to keep the Kallikantzaroi at bay.
    This tradition reflects a blend of ancient pagan beliefs and Christian customs, emphasizing the themes of light and darkness, chaos

  • @alexaugustynski3620
    @alexaugustynski3620 Місяць тому

  • @alytzuca
    @alytzuca Місяць тому

    Hello Jonathan! What symbolize on the icon, the small orange garment with gold light, from the shoulder of the apostles and prophets? (Sorry my english)

  • @TheDroc1990
    @TheDroc1990 Місяць тому

    Christ is Born

  • @stephaniemodavis
    @stephaniemodavis Місяць тому

    🎉

  • @ilil813
    @ilil813 Місяць тому

    Holy Spirit proceeds from The Son AND The Father .

  • @abele_274
    @abele_274 Місяць тому

    The axe is laid unto the root of the trees 🪓

  • @highpitchnoise
    @highpitchnoise Місяць тому

    14:27 both animals are once wild, now submitting.

    • @highpitchnoise
      @highpitchnoise Місяць тому

      Fulfillment OT.. animal sacrifice now transformed to internal sacrifice.

  • @jerricknaylor9686
    @jerricknaylor9686 Місяць тому

    I sent you an email about the meaning of the parable of the shrewd manager

  • @danielfoliaco3873
    @danielfoliaco3873 Місяць тому

    👍🏼🇨🇴

  • @jamescastro2037
    @jamescastro2037 Місяць тому

    An anchor of reality would be an anchor that came from the real it y. This anchor only holds us in reality if we cannot break the chain of causation. Reality is knowing too much of the past and future making us blind of what's happening in the present.

  • @MarceloSeravalli
    @MarceloSeravalli Місяць тому

    The mountain nativity would be soo cooool!, with Ibex instead of oxen and asses

  • @AndyJarman
    @AndyJarman Місяць тому

    It's a montage! (Team America).

  • @hurricane9200
    @hurricane9200 Місяць тому +1

    FAKE ALERT : 34:54 (c) " Orthodoxy baptizes cultures right Orthodoxy went into Russia baptized Russia baptized Rome " - fake. He do not know what he talking about .

  • @miklosfabian4722
    @miklosfabian4722 Місяць тому +1

    It is pronounced the same: December 25th the Son (Jesus) is born - the Sun is born (again)

  • @bradicas5359
    @bradicas5359 Місяць тому

    The troff could be viewed as the new covenant 😮

  • @Leolakey
    @Leolakey Місяць тому

    Christmas a made up story using some truth and many falsehoods. The Messiah was born during God's ordained Days of Tabernacles not the birthday of pagan gods. He was laid in a Tabernacle not a animals food trough there were no Magi present, they wouldn't arrive for another year and a half during Hannukah finding the child in his house at which time they gave him the wealth Daniel had saved with instructions saying when you see the two zodiac signs of the Virgin and Leo in junction go to Israel, and it was a caravan not 3 guys by themselves and they took the Family with them into Egypt

  • @ELC-h9b
    @ELC-h9b Місяць тому

    Youve taken such a thin slice out of the timeline of ancient Mediterranean history. You say the ass and ox represent the coming together of Jews and "foreigners". But how exactly? This symbolism represents The Great Mother worship. 2 different forms of this worship merging. Why don't you discuss this?

  • @shaft9000
    @shaft9000 Місяць тому +1

    Meh. Pagan appropriation and naked commerce isn't an "anchor" it's an absurdity.

    • @acrxsls1766
      @acrxsls1766 Місяць тому +3

      Christmas literally stands for Christ Mass, something Protestants wouldn't understand. Almost nothing pagan about Christmas the season, nor about Christ Himself. He conquered Rome and you're salty, get over it.

    •  Місяць тому

      correct in essance

    • @benjaminlquinlan8702
      @benjaminlquinlan8702 Місяць тому +2

      Point to me your ontology that isn't an absurdity

  • @aktraining3747
    @aktraining3747 Місяць тому

    4:24 " I have to admit that it's a much harder fast to follow than lent " - he forget to add simple word "for me"

  • @aktraining3747
    @aktraining3747 Місяць тому

    "Freudian slip" - "ha-ha-ha" .... for real ??? should we take this video serious ?

  • @aktraining3747
    @aktraining3747 Місяць тому +1

    he live in fantasy not real Christianity

  • @yolandaa.trevinophd6312
    @yolandaa.trevinophd6312 Місяць тому +6

    Thank you for bringing to the world the most important narrative of our lives and the universe. May God bless you, your family, your art, and your mission. I understand, your frustration in not “doing things twice”, believe me! I know! Jesus inspires me to remember…. Your 1000th time, is the first time for thousands! I thank you for referring to the videos in your library. Merry Christmas.

  • @herobornmusic
    @herobornmusic Місяць тому +1

    Merry Christmas ☦️🙏🏽

  • @choseyfrozey1562
    @choseyfrozey1562 Місяць тому +2

    Merry Christmas 🎄 😊