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
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
“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
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!
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 ❤
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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?
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!
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.
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
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.
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 .
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
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?
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.
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.
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
@Jonathan Pageau this is your best explanation of the meaning of Christmas. Thank you for all you have done and will do.
Aaron
Merry Christmas Jonathan!!
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.
It's very admirable what you're doing for your family. Stay strong and keep the faith.
May God keep you and bless you.
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.
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.
@@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.
Jonathan, I thank you for keeping me company this Christmas morn. I feel you are a long lost son.
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.
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.
No, it's the eve of Epiphany. When the Magi arrived. Two different things.
@francefradet2116 It's Christmas eve on the Julian calendar
My husband just started carving icons. They’re amazing!
Carving? Icons are 2d and "painted".
@@stormshadowctfyou are perusing the channel of an icon carver
The foundation of the world! Christ is born. Glorify Him.
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.
“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
Merry Christmas ✨🙏🏼✨ Thank you for all that you do ✨🎁✨
Merry Christmas! Christ is born! Glorify him!
Thank you for re-posting on a wonderful day for it!
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!
Thanks!
Magnificent video. Explains so much
Merry Christmas. Christ the Savior is Born! Take care all!🎉🎉🎉🎁🎀🎁⛪️🌟❄️❄️❄️🐑☃️⛄️☃️❄️❄️
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 ❤
Καλά Χριστούγεννα
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas. "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men."
Linksmų Kalėdų
Feliz Natal!
Natalis dominicus sit tibi felix et fortunatus
Great way to spend this day with my Bible-geek family.
Jesus is a meal for us to experience.
Merry Christmas to you and yours ❤️🙌🏻🇬🇧🙌🏻🙏🏻🏥🙏🏻⚡️
Gloria! In Excelsis Deo! Gr8 One Brother❤🙏🏽❤️🔥🎄🌈🌌💫🔯🕎
Thank you my friend I really needed to hear this 🙏 ✌️
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.
Very clear, and thank you for your work
Good One Brother❤🙏🏽❤️🔥🎄🌈🌌💫🔯🕎
Thank you for reposting this. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas 🎄
Christmas has never been explained to me like that before. I saved this and will rewatch this to see if I catch anything else.
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.
Feliz Navidad!!
Christ is born! Merry Christmas to all 🎄
Merry Christmas ☦️
Merry Christmas from the Netherlands
Have a blessed Feast of the Nativity, everyone!
Thank you for posting this again, otherwise I would have missed it! Merry Christmas!
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
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.
Merry Christmas 🙏🏻
Just watched and shared the older post.
Tremendous Video Jonathan! Thank you for your works!!!
Merry Christmas! :)
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!
I would love to see the eggs you’re working on!
Christ is born. Glorify him!
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.
Wow🙏🏻 merry christmas
Merry Christmass everyone
Merry Christmas Johnathan
Merry Christmas!
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.
It means lamb of God❤
Perfect. ❤
🙋🏻♀️so any symbolic connection mentioned by anyone in regards to Jesus being born in a food trough and the Eucharist?
Yes. The manger is a table. Christ is born at the Orthodox Eucharist upon a table.
How sweet is our Christ
@@Skd92g Imagine if he actually taste like vinegar
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.
Merry Christmas Jonathan!
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?
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!
Please, please explore the archetypes and providences at play in the new Nosferatu movie. I’d love to hear you review it!
"Youre not allowed to eat...donkeys"
Good catching yourself there jonathan 13:59
Excellent videoExcellent video
...wunderbar...
I love you.
thank you for resharing this!
Thanks
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.
🙏
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
WOO🎉
Holy Spirit proceeds from The Son AND The Father .
14:27 both animals are once wild, now submitting.
Fulfillment OT.. animal sacrifice now transformed to internal sacrifice.
🎉
Christ is Born
The axe is laid unto the root of the trees 🪓
The troff could be viewed as the new covenant 😮
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.
Did you take your meds?
I sent you an email about the meaning of the parable of the shrewd manager
The mountain nativity would be soo cooool!, with Ibex instead of oxen and asses
👍🏼🇨🇴
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 .
It is pronounced the same: December 25th the Son (Jesus) is born - the Sun is born (again)
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
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?
Meh. Pagan appropriation and naked commerce isn't an "anchor" it's an absurdity.
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.
correct in essance
Point to me your ontology that isn't an absurdity
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"
"Freudian slip" - "ha-ha-ha" .... for real ??? should we take this video serious ?
he live in fantasy not real Christianity
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.
Merry Christmas ☦️🙏🏽
Merry Christmas 🎄 😊