Saturday, October 30, 2010

Romanian Christmas carols

Christmas or the birth of the Lord, a Christian commemoration day celebrated on December 25 (Gregorian calendar), or the 7th of January (after the Julian calendar) every year. This is one of twelve stately Commemorations (royal church festivals) of Byzantine churches, the third big commemoration after Easter and Pentecost.

In some countries where Christians are a majority, Christmas is also a national holiday, and covers the next day, December 26:The second day of Christmas. For children there is under the name "Santa's Gifts" opportunity, where everyone is known Romanian Christmas carols.

And you can find the Romanian people with Christian sentiment that Christmas is one of the most important religious ceremonies, and remember the birth of the Lord, a moment of joy, serenity and peace of mind. It is a day of giving and receiving love and spiritual warmth. This is easily noticed the excitementChristmas preparation.

For linguists, the word "Christmas" is a strange word. Some say it derives from the Latin word, "creative", which means the creation, birth. In folklore, are the Virgin Mary, when he was the Son of God, they walked together with the right Joseph from house to house asking for protection. These aspects are mentioned in Romania Christmas carols.

Reaching the house, some "Christmas" is taken from his wife in the stable, where Jesus gives birthalso say that the holy night of Christ's birth, the heavens opened and the Holy Spirit came upon the Son of God, the illumination of the dark barn. Therefore, Christmas is a sacred memory, the light in the hearts of the people mentioned in that Christmas brings, too.

Christmas holidays will be announced Romanian children used to sing Christmas carols from door to door to inform the birth of the Redeemer. An ancient tradition is also "go with the symbol", made byPastor with the symbol of the birth of the Lord, the blessing of homes and their Christians. Winter Carols ritual texts are devoted to Christmas and New Year's sung. Its origins are lost somewhere in the past of Romanian history.

When Jesus was born, the sky appeared the star that the three kings bring magic to the place of birth, babies, three to go, like kings, door to door singing "The Star rises ..." Carol, the star with them. Christmas Eve beginswith "Good morning, St. Eva!" Carol and the children sing Christmas songs will be arranged to get home beautiful. Children are the hosts with fruit, pretzels, candy and also reward money.

Romanian Christmas songs and carols singing habits in other countries, and they could do, since the date of Romanization. For example, the Romanian Christmas song "Scoala, Gazda, patut DIN" is also found in other countries. In fact you can not forget that the peoples and languages wereequal in biblical times, there may be many cultural aspects common Christmas song. These songs are usually sung by children brings hope and joy of every year at this time.

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