Fun fact: Every day is a holiday in the Catholic Church. Like there’s a saint’s feast day every day. And the word holiday is a contraction of Holy Day.
@@mmmnah7684Depends on country. In Wales, St. David's Day (1st March) is the significant one. In England it's St. George's Day, in Scotland St. Andrew's etc.
Not so long ago, it was my first advent in a way. I grew up in denominations that never even mentioned that and then converted to a liturgical denomination. Changed my perspective on this season....It brought so much more insight and peace to this whole season!
Catholic teachings and doctrines are wrong and is not from God and Apocrypha is not scripture and it contradicts rest of the bible which is God's word as it teaches praying to dead and Practicing magic in 2 Maccabeus and Tobiah 9:6-7 and Lord Jesus and Apostles didn't quote Apocrypha as Scripture..
The whole World runs around 2024 AD or CE which is based on Jesus, so all humans whether they believe or not, even atests following each and every second based on Jesus's life. That's how powerful Abraham's God is. John 8:12: Jesus said, "I am the Light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
For all those Christians saying that Christmas is "pagan" you need to remember what the apostle Paul wrote: "All things are lawful". There is nothing inherently pagan about sharing a meal, giving one another presents, and celebrating in whatever way we see fit. Every man, and woman, needs to be persuaded in his (or her) own conscience.
Also there is no compelling argument for any of the claims of pagan roots, they all are very easily debunked if you've done a little bit of digging and the only connecting fabric is Winter festivals, something ubiquitous across ALL cultures. Even then, the date of December 25th was literally decided because it was the early Church belief that Jesus would die on the same day He was conceived - they believed that date to be March 25th, so just count up nine months and you get December 25th.
@@davimendesboni8777Christmas is not pagan stop listening to people who have no idea about the history of Christmas they make superficial parallels and say they somehow correlate inspiringphilosophy has some good material on refuting these falsities.
@@kyra4369 The first concrete references to the Krampus are well after the Christianization of Europe, if anything the Krampus is just a European folk tradition like any fae (which are secular). The first connection the Krampus ever had with Winter celebrations didn't appear until the 19th century, even, the earlier connections are based on a genre of plays popular in prior celebrations wherein Saint Nicholas would defeat the devil. Santa Claus is based on fourth century AD figure Saint Nicholas, and Christmas was being celebrated well before Santa Claus was conceived, there are references to Christmas celebrations that trace to those early centuries even before Nicholas' time.
No, he made a Nestorian video. The exact thing that the Council of Ephesus condemned as Nestorianism, that God's human nature and Divine nature have separate actions, is what RZ is saying at 4:40.
RZ, as expected of the Reformed tradition, leans towards Nestorianism and distinguishing too much between the human and divine nature. You see this when he says things like "the human nature died" 4:38 . Natures aren't the thing which is doing the dying, it is the thing which facilitates dying to the person! The PERSON of Jesus Christ died ACCORDING to his human nature.
@@Aaron-jh5gcare you Oriental? He showed the Chalcedonian formula fine, 2 natures in one hypostasis Who is Christ, the Son. the soul is separated from the body, which is death. I mean maybe saying 'the human nature died', i'm not sure what he means by that. edit: Actually, saying the human nature dies instead of saying the Son undergoes death does sound nestorian.
As a Catholic, there's something encouraging I find from your (dare I call them) ecumenical videos. There's a lot more the Nicene Christian denominations still hold in common than differ about.
Catholic teachings and doctrines are wrong and is not from God and Apocrypha is not scripture and it contradicts rest of the bible which is God's word as it teaches praying to dead and Practicing magic in 2 Maccabeus and Tobiah 9:6-7 and Lord Jesus and Apostles didn't quote Apocrypha as Scripture..
Guys they are still Gods children. Jesus left seven churches in the book of Revelation, those are the true spiritual churches. Not catholicism, not JW.
The first half of the year is Christ's work he did for us for our salvation, the other half is having received our salvation we learn to live our lives oriented towards Christ. Holy Week is my favorite time of year.
In the Catholic Church, on top of all mentioned in the video, these are also very important (I'm Polish and it might vary per country i guess) Mary, Mother of God: January 1st Sunday of Divine Mercy: first Sunday after Easter Corpus Christi: second Thursday after Pentecost Assumption of Mary: August 15th All Saints Day: November 1st
Each national Conference of Bishops has a listing of "Holy Days of Obligation", NON-Sunday holidays where Mass attendance is necessary, with some variations. e.g. in the USA they are Christmas, Jan 1, Ascension, Assumption, All Saints, Immaculate Conception (Dec. 8). However all these and those mentioned in the video are major "feasts" or "solemnities" recognized across the Church.
@@kashmirandal6282 well they do happen on the same day, but saying that Halloween *is* All Saint's Eve is not right because they are two different things. I do not celebrate Halloween, but I do celebrate All Saint's Eve.
Pentecost is my 2nd favourite because that's around the time I got baptized this year...literally 7 months ago. 😅 Ofc my all time favourite is Advent, and this is my first time celebrating it this year so I'm excited!! Thanks for doing this video 😊
Every time I watch a video like this, It serves as a reminder for some of the things God does for us and it always makes me feel really greatful for our lord.
I would say it is, though sometimes some protestants downplay the incarnation. I wonder if this stems from their aversion to all things Marian, or whether it is a result of their emphasis on salvation and redemption.
PCUSA was episcopalianized by the liturgical renewal movement and JWN's hegelian theology allows me to see myself in the tradition of the Scots Covenanters while also doing things they'd've hated
@redeemedzoomer6053 I don't understand the parto about Nevin's hegelian ecclesiology. Could you explain in baby terms or perhaps make a separate video about it one day?
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I've always wanted to be involved for a long time but the volatility in the price has been very confusing to me. Although I have watched a lot of TH-cam videos about it but I still find it hard to understand
Easter is my favorite holiday because of the Resurrection and spring is my favorite season. In the Catholic Church, Easter extends for an additional 10 days until Pentecost.
Jesus was crucified on Passover. He never heard of Easter which was invented four centuries after His ascension. Pentecost is 50 days after Passover. See Lev 23.
@@Lynn-r8h Easter and Passover describe the same thing here. If there ever was a pagan Easter that landed on the same day and followed the same convoluted calculations to find the exact date... I don't think there is so no point finishing that
@ that made my head spin. Easter wasn’t invented by man until the 4th century. Passover was instituted by God at Mt. Sinai. Easter revolves around the spring equinox and uses a modern calendar. Passover is always the 14th day of the first month on the biblical calendar. Passover commemorates the passing over of God’s people who chose to be saved by the blood of the Lamb with the blood on the Cross. Easter means egg hunts, Easter baskets and ham dinners. Pork is forbidden by God. So no rational human being can say they are related in any way! God’s commands vs. many’s traditions. Did you know there is a church by me that has egg hunts?
Our church's favourite Christian holiday is ascension day, we all get together and cook lots of curry and eat it as a church family, because the heat rises like Christ did! (The real explanation is that we just wanted to celebrate it and thought "hey we all like curry right?" It's fun to bring up with non-Christians though!)
Thanks Redeemed zoomer. I had no idea some protestants celebrated 3 kings day or acknowledged ash Wednesday, lent, etc. I thought only Catholics did. I have seen many protestants denounce these things so I'm surprised. I'll be looking into these.
Those who denounce the holidays and the liturgical calendar IMO are either too strongly influenced by Puritanism, or by modern Fundamentalism with its claim to strip away anything they can't date to the Apostles, or just mistake Protestantism for Anticatholicism. The historic Protestant traditions spawned from the Reformation did not throw away a millennium and a half of rich heritage of the Western Church, but they did change where they'd give the focus and emphasis and how they celebrate, which is fair enough. Then of course there's the notorious "Protestant Work Ethic" which would say it's enough for you to have time off on Sunday why should you take holidays too 😅
Wow. Thank you for your responses, gentlemen. I am protestant and have been looking up church history. I am reading confessions by st. Augustine. I am right now in struggle on what church to go to. I have only gone to Pentecostals and currently at a non denomination church. However, my spirit now tends to move away from those denominations as they don't seem to hold to church history. It saddens me to see so much rich history, traditions, and festivities thrown away by these sects. They are beautiful and my soul wants to fully embrace these things. It makes me seek God more. It truly makes God feel closer. These things keep you focus on God, that's how I see it anyway.
I hadn't thought about how widespread advent candles were. I'm Baptist, and at least the last three churches I've attended regularly (spanning 17 years) lit advent candles. They're comforting.
As one raised in the Baptist tradition, we've used the advent candle on a few occasions. Many of the liturgical Christian holidays are excellent pictures of different aspects of Jesus' life and ministry.
I was raised Church of Christ, and no mention of Advent. In 2016, I left the Church of Christ and joined a non-denominational church. My non-denominational church obseres Advent and Ash Wednesday/Lent every year.
That’s the way it should be. Forty days after Easter Sunday is a Thursday, not another Sunday. Ascension Sunday is celebrated by those churches too chicken to have a special service in the middle of the week. 😅
I actually have been learning about about this as I have been watching a Catholic mass every Sunday since just before Easter. I am not Catholic myself but it is interesting how they start every Mass with something like "Today we are celebrating the 4th Sunday of Easter," or "the 20th Sunday of ordinary time." Most protestant churches are like, today is Easter Sunday or Christmas.
We do that because this Christian calendar is called the “liturgical year.” This calendar allows us to track how many days/weeks we are in a season. ❤️
We work on a yearlong calendar that is split into four times, Ordinary, Advent, Lent, and Easter. For Sunday's we have 3 liturgical years, which means that every three years, we reread the same readings in the bible. On dally mass I believe it's only one liturgical year. It's set up so if you go to Mass every Sunday for 3 years, you'll have listened to almost the whole Bible.
@@RKerns Interesting. Though what I tend to favor is expository preaching, that some of the protestant churches do. Where they take a book of the bible and spend months to a couple years, reading a few verses every week reading line by line, and explaining what the text means and all references to them for 30-40 minutes every Sunday. In little over a year I read our 66 book bible twice. I have been reading what we call the Apocrypha, I am not sure what you call them but they are the books Catholics use from the Greek Old Testament that Protestants don't, before I start my 3rd read. There are a lot of things I like about the Catholic church, and while the ones I have seen give a great 10 to 15 minute sermon based on the application for a few bible verse they read that day, it does lack that deep dive into what it means, what Old or New Testament works derive from or to it, that really gives a deep understanding beyond what I read, or can listen to in Catholic mass. I often wonder what a Catholic would do with an expository preaching style. As it might blend the best of both.
He didn't create the first nativity set, as modern discoveries have shown that these displays were made by the sun worshiping religions long before Jesus was born. It was all appropriated into the modern Christmas tradition like most of the other customs by counterfeit Christianity.
@@theeternalsbeliever1779 That's a HUGE stretch. Are star wars lego toys inspired from nativity sets? Little figurines are obviously not original... but figurines of the Holy Family and the manger is Christian alone.
Pentecost and Easter are also special because they are the only two holidays in the church that are found in the Old testament as well. Note that Easter is called Pasca in almost every other language and directly comes from Passover
Easter was not celebrated by the 1st century Church. The only times that the Bible actually talks about Easter is within the context of Israelites worshiping Asherah/Ashtoreth. The word that is translated as "Easter" in KJV is correctly rendered in NKJV as "Passover".
Ascension day on a Sunday? Then I look it up and lo and behold .. "Catholic parishes in a number of countries that do not observe the feast as a public holiday have obtained permission from the Vatican to move observance of the Feast of the Ascension from the traditional Thursday to the following Sunday, the Sunday before Pentecost.'' I learn something new every time on your channel, RZ. Thank you.
3:37 fun fact: The Orthodox Church still fasts on Lent, and not only. Also in the Advent season and in other minor seasons, asn also every Friday and Wednesday. So it's not modern Christians, but Western Christians. I do not fast tbh, but the Church does.
I was impressed to fast one day a week, usually Thursday because of what usually happens that day, but it can be any day of the week. I just try to follow the Spirit as best I can and listen for His instruction (I of course would fast more than just that one day if I was impressed upon for that week...I also wait to eat on Sunday until after church because I figured it was a good idea). I usually only drink water on those days though, I don't often do it with liquids only besides water. Edit: I do not practice most of these holidays, though.
This is really interesting, but I wish you had mentioned when all these holidays are. I don't know when Advent transitions to Christmas or when Christmas transitions to Epiphany, and that seems at least somewhat important.
@ nonsense. He was conceived Kislev 25 and born Tishri 15. The calendar you are using didn’t exist when Yeshua walked in the earth. Stop teaching nonsense.
@Lynn-r8h in the Bible, Mary received good news in the sixth month, which means in the Jewish calendar the month of Adar, and what you said was kislev which is actually the ninth month, and also if the calendar is translated into gregorian then kislev is the month around november and december
@ John the Baptist was born at Passover. Jesus was born six months later at Sukkot, the 15th day of the seventh month. It’s the Feast of Tabernacles. Therefore, counting back nine months means Jesus was conceived at Hanukkah.
The giant empty half that is usually called ordinary Time has the three fall holy days of the Old Testament at its center. Many people believe these refer to Christ's second coming, and they can also be understood as telling the whole story of the gospel (creation, sin and atonement, living with God)
When I lived in Germany, I found out they also have Ascension and Corpus Christi. Imaging how glad I was when i found out these are all public holidays as well, along with Good Friday, Easter, and Pentecost, all in the spring to early summer season. Oh yeah, and Reformation Day too, at least in the Protestant states.
⛪😇 good morning all ⛪ i am on the Altar Guild you need to know the Difference Season to set up the Altar and as when dont to put flowers on the Altar Advent as the shorter and Ordinary Sundays is 32 week
I grew up Protestant/ non-denom and I never knew that Advent was a thing until very recently. Asked my mom if she knows of it and she said, what’s that? I’ve been around various Christians over the years, and not a single mention of it!
There seems to be a division amongst Presbyterians about participating in the church calendar. Some do, but many don’t, citing that every Lord’s day we celebrate our risen Savior, and we need no other holiday.
Since you mentioned so many hymns in this video, you should do a traditional hymns tier list. The Church's One Foundation, for instance, is an easy S tier for me.
Also, in the Catholic Calendar the period between Pentecost and Advent is known as "Ordinary Time" -- the various liturgial "seasons"mentioned have a fixed duration so they do not cover the whole year.
@ when man’s traditions usurp God’s commandments, one should leave the traditions. God gave mankind HIS holy days. Why does mankind try to toss those out and institute their own. See Lev. 23.
You forgot about St. Brigid's, Candlemass, St. Patrick's, Annunciation, Lammas (aka Firstfruits or Loafmass), Exaltation of the Cross, Dormition, Conception of Our Lady, and Presentation of Our Lady. Also Lent and Advent are not holidays (feasts); they're the anti-holidays (fasts).
I have some friends who don’t celebrate Christmas, because “it’s pagan” and “the Bible doesn’t tell us to celebrate Christ’s birth.” They also don’t celebrate Easter, which is something I’ve never heard of. They say a similar argument, and they instead follow Jewish holidays. I’d love to know your response on this, and a rebuttal if you have one. I find it….insane, to be frank, but I don’t know how to respond lol 😂
There is a Rebuttal, the 1646 Westminster Confession declares the Jewish Festivals as Abrogated through their fulfilment in Christ. This means that anyone who keeps the Jewish feasts, which pointed to Jesus, is denying that He is the Messiah, and is thus under the full Mosaic Law and must keep all 613 Points Perfectly and without fail, for they are Ineligible for for the Grace of Jesus Christ, and are doomed to Hell unless they Repent and Declare Jesus as Christ, God and Lord and cease to observe the Abrogated Jewish Feasts!
4:01 Correction Not all Christians Practise Ash Wednesday. For example we in the Free Methodist church don't do Ash Wednesday but acknowledge Lent. Its only the most trad churches such as Catholic Orthodox or Protestant that participate in Ash Wednesday.
In Australia, Ash Wednesday is also the day of an infamous bushfire that was, until 2009, the worst bushfire day by lives lost. The name just makes it ironic.
Fun fact: Every day is a holiday in the Catholic Church. Like there’s a saint’s feast day every day. And the word holiday is a contraction of Holy Day.
Right because holiday = Holy day!
Yet St Patrick's feast day is the only one recognized in your typical calendar (not catholic)
@@mmmnah7684Depends on country. In Wales, St. David's Day (1st March) is the significant one. In England it's St. George's Day, in Scotland St. Andrew's etc.
@@mmmnah7684To be fair, there’s also St. Valentines Day.
@@mmmnah7684 Interesting. In Poland there is alot of that. Plus st. Valentine's day is also pretty present in the secular world!
Fun fact, he's talking about the liturgical calender. Which he covered fully. Catholics have both liturgical holy days and saint feast days.
Currently observing my first Advent as a practicing Christian. So exciting to see it as more than the time to rush for buying Christmas gifts.
First time for me too, hope it goes well for us! glory to God!
First time for me too. God bless you
Happy to have you guys! Blessings to you and your families ❤
I was there last year. It's an amazing feeling
Not so long ago, it was my first advent in a way. I grew up in denominations that never even mentioned that and then converted to a liturgical denomination. Changed my perspective on this season....It brought so much more insight and peace to this whole season!
I really liked this, as a Catholic I didn’t know some Protestants celebrated all of these days too that’s awesome! Glory to God!
Neither did I
Catholic teachings and doctrines are wrong and is not from God and Apocrypha is not scripture and it contradicts rest of the bible which is God's word as it teaches praying to dead and Practicing magic in 2 Maccabeus and Tobiah 9:6-7 and Lord Jesus and Apostles didn't quote Apocrypha as Scripture..
Of course they do. Dont let modern non-denominationals set the standard. Most Protestants arent "Easter is pagan" lunatics.
Most do. Lutherans, Anglicans, Methodists, Presbyterians, and Reformed traditions all use the Western Liturgical Year.
The whole World runs around 2024 AD or CE which is based on Jesus, so all humans whether they believe or not, even atests following each and every second based on Jesus's life. That's how powerful Abraham's God is.
John 8:12: Jesus said, "I am the Light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
For all those Christians saying that Christmas is "pagan" you need to remember what the apostle Paul wrote: "All things are lawful". There is nothing inherently pagan about sharing a meal, giving one another presents, and celebrating in whatever way we see fit. Every man, and woman, needs to be persuaded in his (or her) own conscience.
nah ill just stick to not celebrate christmas
Also there is no compelling argument for any of the claims of pagan roots, they all are very easily debunked if you've done a little bit of digging and the only connecting fabric is Winter festivals, something ubiquitous across ALL cultures. Even then, the date of December 25th was literally decided because it was the early Church belief that Jesus would die on the same day He was conceived - they believed that date to be March 25th, so just count up nine months and you get December 25th.
The story of Krampus came long before Santa. It's certainly pagan in origin.
@@davimendesboni8777Christmas is not pagan stop listening to people who have no idea about the history of Christmas they make superficial parallels and say they somehow correlate inspiringphilosophy has some good material on refuting these falsities.
@@kyra4369 The first concrete references to the Krampus are well after the Christianization of Europe, if anything the Krampus is just a European folk tradition like any fae (which are secular). The first connection the Krampus ever had with Winter celebrations didn't appear until the 19th century, even, the earlier connections are based on a genre of plays popular in prior celebrations wherein Saint Nicholas would defeat the devil.
Santa Claus is based on fourth century AD figure Saint Nicholas, and Christmas was being celebrated well before Santa Claus was conceived, there are references to Christmas celebrations that trace to those early centuries even before Nicholas' time.
Bro made this an anti-Nestorian video and I’m here for it.
No, he made a Nestorian video. The exact thing that the Council of Ephesus condemned as Nestorianism, that God's human nature and Divine nature have separate actions, is what RZ is saying at 4:40.
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Nestorianism separated the two natures in Christ so that there were two natures and two persons.
RZ, as expected of the Reformed tradition, leans towards Nestorianism and distinguishing too much between the human and divine nature. You see this when he says things like "the human nature died" 4:38 . Natures aren't the thing which is doing the dying, it is the thing which facilitates dying to the person! The PERSON of Jesus Christ died ACCORDING to his human nature.
@@Aaron-jh5gcare you Oriental? He showed the Chalcedonian formula fine, 2 natures in one hypostasis Who is Christ, the Son. the soul is separated from the body, which is death. I mean maybe saying 'the human nature died', i'm not sure what he means by that.
edit: Actually, saying the human nature dies instead of saying the Son undergoes death does sound nestorian.
Nestorius didnt even believe in 2 persons he believed in 2 natures @@heavenbound7-7-7-7
As a Catholic, there's something encouraging I find from your (dare I call them) ecumenical videos. There's a lot more the Nicene Christian denominations still hold in common than differ about.
As a Catholic who loves the liturgy,
LETS GO BABY!!
Also, Santa’s not dead. He’s just in Heaven.
@ True. St. Nicholas, pray for us!
Catholic teachings and doctrines are wrong and is not from God and Apocrypha is not scripture and it contradicts rest of the bible which is God's word as it teaches praying to dead and Practicing magic in 2 Maccabeus and Tobiah 9:6-7 and Lord Jesus and Apostles didn't quote Apocrypha as Scripture..
My dad said St. Nicholas Day is days before (or maybe after) 25th December which is Christmas
that is a very michael knowles-esque comment
I needed this after having to deal with my JW coworker this past week.
The JWs that I have met have been vary mean
Guys they are still Gods children. Jesus left seven churches in the book of Revelation, those are the true spiritual churches. Not catholicism, not JW.
@@NathanAmieljehovas witnesses are literally heretics so technically no
I dont know why but zoomer saying "Santa is actually real, he's just dead" in the most nonchalant tone is funny to me
2:15
Technically, he isnt rly dead though, as he is a saint and all saints are alive in Heaven
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@@colincampbell3837 I accidentally read that as Satan💀
2:16 False Santa is alive I saw him at the mall just the other day. Checkmate Arius.
I thought you were going to defend icons and how the Saints art alive in Christ lol
@MarkStein-d2c I didn't say icons were bad, did i? I just thought when reading he was about to defend icons, your assuming so much out of nothing
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The first half of the year is Christ's work he did for us for our salvation, the other half is having received our salvation we learn to live our lives oriented towards Christ. Holy Week is my favorite time of year.
Listening to this on my way to work is soothing. Got a lot to celebrate for what God has given us.
Lent does feel like the best though, deepening your connection to Christ makes you feel better than anything else.
Yeah for real
In the Catholic Church, on top of all mentioned in the video, these are also very important (I'm Polish and it might vary per country i guess)
Mary, Mother of God: January 1st
Sunday of Divine Mercy: first Sunday after Easter
Corpus Christi: second Thursday after Pentecost
Assumption of Mary: August 15th
All Saints Day: November 1st
Immaculate Conception: Dec 8
@@fallenkingdom-zd8xh Maundy (White) Thursday and Holy Saturday, during Holy Week.
Each national Conference of Bishops has a listing of "Holy Days of Obligation", NON-Sunday holidays where Mass attendance is necessary, with some variations. e.g. in the USA they are Christmas, Jan 1, Ascension, Assumption, All Saints, Immaculate Conception (Dec. 8). However all these and those mentioned in the video are major "feasts" or "solemnities" recognized across the Church.
Other Christians don’t celebrate halloween due to it being “satanic” but it’s actually just All Saint’s Eve!
@@kashmirandal6282 well they do happen on the same day, but saying that Halloween *is* All Saint's Eve is not right because they are two different things. I do not celebrate Halloween, but I do celebrate All Saint's Eve.
I can't wait for Christmas! Albanian protestant here.
Mega based
Hello neighbor, Orthodox Greek here, I didn't know there is a Protestant presence in Albania. God bless you.
I'm serb ( please don't hate me lol) and it's firest time i hear about Albanian protestants..
Lots of non-English speaking Europeans here these days. Makes me feel less alone :)
Cool, never met an Albanian Protestant before tbh
Fun fact: In the Eastern Orthodox Church there are 13 Holidays
Pentecost is my 2nd favourite because that's around the time I got baptized this year...literally 7 months ago. 😅 Ofc my all time favourite is Advent, and this is my first time celebrating it this year so I'm excited!! Thanks for doing this video 😊
Congrats welcome to the faith!
Hey welcome to the family
Soli Deo Gloria! So happy for you, sister ❤✝
1:40 In Kyle’s mom voice: “He couldn’t even walk or twalk” 🙃
Walk tuah??
translated to "lucky walk"
Every time I watch a video like this, It serves as a reminder for some of the things God does for us and it always makes me feel really greatful for our lord.
"Santa is actually real, he's just dead" -Redeemed Zoomer
2:15
But he isn't dead. The saints are immortal
Yes! Yes! Love your videos focused on the church traditions
Easter is the best.
Yeah, it should be a Christian's favorite holiday.
Based
So much so that Christians who observe the liturgical calendar celebrate it for seven Sundays.
I would say it is, though sometimes some protestants downplay the incarnation. I wonder if this stems from their aversion to all things Marian, or whether it is a result of their emphasis on salvation and redemption.
What downplays the glory of the incarnation is when you take away prayer and praise He deserves and give it to Mary and the saints.
Great video! Bro's Presbyterian ancestors are rolling over in their graves but this Anglican sure loved it
PCUSA was episcopalianized by the liturgical renewal movement and JWN's hegelian theology allows me to see myself in the tradition of the Scots Covenanters while also doing things they'd've hated
@redeemedzoomer6053 I don't understand the parto about Nevin's hegelian ecclesiology. Could you explain in baby terms or perhaps make a separate video about it one day?
Glory to God ❤️🙏🏻🙌🏻✝️
I was homeless, did drugs, went into prison, where I got to know God. He changed my life. Now I have a home, a wife and a lovely year old daughter (zoe), and a stream of income that gats me $47,000 weekly. Plus a new identity - a child of God, Hallelujah!!!!🇺🇲❣️♥️♥️
Congratulations!! The scriptures clearly states there's going a transference of the riches of the heathen to the righteous. God keep blessings you
But how do you make so much in a month?mind sharing?
Thanks to Mary Margaret Schimweg.
Really feel your pain, when I was even almost down my God sent to me Mary Margaret Schimweg services cryp to to me and changed the game automatically.
I've always wanted to be involved for a
long time but the volatility in the price has been very confusing to me. Although I have watched a lot of TH-cam videos about it but I still find it hard to understand
You have the best Christian channel on TH-cam for educational purposes it’s excellent brother thank you, may the holy spirit bless you🕊️
Non-Denoms: "Ash Wednesday is pagan!!!"
Some Evangelical circles will question Christmas and Easter, look at Alexander Hislop’s Two Babylons.
Never heard that complaint by non denom.
@@fadikhoory5350 I don't care about them. I'll celebrate Christ
@@sunkissedprincessthere’s a decently sized community on TH-cam which calls basically every holiday Pagan
Must of either missed it at the non denom im used to or it has not made it around there yet. Hopefully not.
In Spain we take from Palm Sunday to Resurrection Sunday and call it "Semana Santa" (Holy Week) then we celebrate Easter in the Monday
We call it Holy Week in English too
Easter Monday is also celebrated by Catholics in America
Keep up the great work, RZ! Videos are always very informative
Christmas is my favorite, because its Christ's birthday
based
Please capitalise "Christ" thank you very much
Easter is also based because it is when Christianity truly started when Jesus rose from the dead
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@weziak bro I dont think god is too worried about that
""Bro that's heresy!" Said Santa Claus, punching him in the face"
Sola Fistus🥊
Huh, I have performed advent with my family my whole life, now knowing it is a major thing is amazing, Thank you!
Easter is my favorite holiday because of the Resurrection and spring is my favorite season. In the Catholic Church, Easter extends for an additional 10 days until Pentecost.
Jesus was crucified on Passover. He never heard of Easter which was invented four centuries after His ascension. Pentecost is 50 days after Passover. See Lev 23.
@@Lynn-r8h He was crucified on Good Friday.
@ according to the Bible He was crucified on Passover. Or is the Bible wrong?
@@Lynn-r8h Easter and Passover describe the same thing here. If there ever was a pagan Easter that landed on the same day and followed the same convoluted calculations to find the exact date... I don't think there is so no point finishing that
@ that made my head spin. Easter wasn’t invented by man until the 4th century. Passover was instituted by God at Mt. Sinai. Easter revolves around the spring equinox and uses a modern calendar. Passover is always the 14th day of the first month on the biblical calendar. Passover commemorates the passing over of God’s people who chose to be saved by the blood of the Lamb with the blood on the Cross. Easter means egg hunts, Easter baskets and ham dinners. Pork is forbidden by God. So no rational human being can say they are related in any way! God’s commands vs. many’s traditions. Did you know there is a church by me that has egg hunts?
Our church's favourite Christian holiday is ascension day, we all get together and cook lots of curry and eat it as a church family, because the heat rises like Christ did! (The real explanation is that we just wanted to celebrate it and thought "hey we all like curry right?" It's fun to bring up with non-Christians though!)
I LOVE THE REDEEMED ZOOMER. HE IS A A MAN OF GOD
If any of you think that any of these holidays are pagan, I would recommend checking out some episodes from Cultish.
@@ReformedStudent1689 And Inspiring Philosophy
And Shameless Popery.
@@fallenkingdom-zd8xhyes 😂 his sweater
I haven't heard of those two channels/podcats before, I'll check 'em out!
@@ReformedStudent1689 look up Gavin ortlund not for this but he’s very good
4:30 fun fact: one of the worst earthquakes in history, the worst in the us, happened on Good Friday 1960 in Alaska.
As a catholic we celebrate all these holidays.
Thanks Redeemed zoomer. I had no idea some protestants celebrated 3 kings day or acknowledged ash Wednesday, lent, etc. I thought only Catholics did. I have seen many protestants denounce these things so I'm surprised. I'll be looking into these.
In Lutheranism these things are observed, but not as prominently like Catholics do.
Those who denounce the holidays and the liturgical calendar IMO are either too strongly influenced by Puritanism, or by modern Fundamentalism with its claim to strip away anything they can't date to the Apostles, or just mistake Protestantism for Anticatholicism. The historic Protestant traditions spawned from the Reformation did not throw away a millennium and a half of rich heritage of the Western Church, but they did change where they'd give the focus and emphasis and how they celebrate, which is fair enough. Then of course there's the notorious "Protestant Work Ethic" which would say it's enough for you to have time off on Sunday why should you take holidays too 😅
@@chedelirio6984I was a Lutheran before becoming Catholic. We observed all of the feasts RZ covers in this video.
Wow. Thank you for your responses, gentlemen. I am protestant and have been looking up church history. I am reading confessions by st. Augustine. I am right now in struggle on what church to go to. I have only gone to Pentecostals and currently at a non denomination church. However, my spirit now tends to move away from those denominations as they don't seem to hold to church history. It saddens me to see so much rich history, traditions, and festivities thrown away by these sects. They are beautiful and my soul wants to fully embrace these things. It makes me seek God more. It truly makes God feel closer. These things keep you focus on God, that's how I see it anyway.
I hadn't thought about how widespread advent candles were. I'm Baptist, and at least the last three churches I've attended regularly (spanning 17 years) lit advent candles. They're comforting.
As one raised in the Baptist tradition, we've used the advent candle on a few occasions. Many of the liturgical Christian holidays are excellent pictures of different aspects of Jesus' life and ministry.
I was raised Church of Christ, and no mention of Advent. In 2016, I left the Church of Christ and joined a non-denominational church. My non-denominational church obseres Advent and Ash Wednesday/Lent every year.
@@arkansasrebel348 , nice.
I didn’t hear about Advent until I started attending an Episcopal Church. I attended a Baptist church in high school and there was no mention of it.
The Pentecostal church I go to has an advent wreath and candles on the alter/stage during advent-season church services.
Good job. We celebrate Ascension Day on a Thursday, rather than a Sunday, but as long as it is celebrated, that is good.
That’s the way it should be. Forty days after Easter Sunday is a Thursday, not another Sunday. Ascension Sunday is celebrated by those churches too chicken to have a special service in the middle of the week. 😅
I actually have been learning about about this as I have been watching a Catholic mass every Sunday since just before Easter. I am not Catholic myself but it is interesting how they start every Mass with something like "Today we are celebrating the 4th Sunday of Easter," or "the 20th Sunday of ordinary time." Most protestant churches are like, today is Easter Sunday or Christmas.
Protestant are not here to impress people
We do that because this Christian calendar is called the “liturgical year.” This calendar allows us to track how many days/weeks we are in a season. ❤️
We work on a yearlong calendar that is split into four times, Ordinary, Advent, Lent, and Easter. For Sunday's we have 3 liturgical years, which means that every three years, we reread the same readings in the bible. On dally mass I believe it's only one liturgical year. It's set up so if you go to Mass every Sunday for 3 years, you'll have listened to almost the whole Bible.
@@RKerns Interesting. Though what I tend to favor is expository preaching, that some of the protestant churches do. Where they take a book of the bible and spend months to a couple years, reading a few verses every week reading line by line, and explaining what the text means and all references to them for 30-40 minutes every Sunday.
In little over a year I read our 66 book bible twice. I have been reading what we call the Apocrypha, I am not sure what you call them but they are the books Catholics use from the Greek Old Testament that Protestants don't, before I start my 3rd read.
There are a lot of things I like about the Catholic church, and while the ones I have seen give a great 10 to 15 minute sermon based on the application for a few bible verse they read that day, it does lack that deep dive into what it means, what Old or New Testament works derive from or to it, that really gives a deep understanding beyond what I read, or can listen to in Catholic mass. I often wonder what a Catholic would do with an expository preaching style. As it might blend the best of both.
We do this in the LCMS as well 😊
Thank you soo much. I am learning so much from you and I even study your videos and write notes.
Oh hey, you told me about this one 🔥
It makes sense that St. Francis of Assisi considered Christmas more important that Easter considered that he created the first Nativity set.
He didn't create the first nativity set, as modern discoveries have shown that these displays were made by the sun worshiping religions long before Jesus was born. It was all appropriated into the modern Christmas tradition like most of the other customs by counterfeit Christianity.
@ I can’t tell if this is satire or not.
@@theeternalsbeliever1779 That's a HUGE stretch. Are star wars lego toys inspired from nativity sets?
Little figurines are obviously not original... but figurines of the Holy Family and the manger is Christian alone.
fun fact, "advent" comes from the latin word "adventus" which means "arrival", so it is the time we await the arrival of Jesus Christ😊
0:18 Luke 1 vibes babyyyy
Pentecost and Easter are also special because they are the only two holidays in the church that are found in the Old testament as well. Note that Easter is called Pasca in almost every other language and directly comes from Passover
Easter was not celebrated by the 1st century Church. The only times that the Bible actually talks about Easter is within the context of Israelites worshiping Asherah/Ashtoreth. The word that is translated as "Easter" in KJV is correctly rendered in NKJV as "Passover".
@@theeternalsbeliever1779what's the difference? How do you say Easter in Greek vs Passover in Greek? Or in Hebrew for that matter?
Ascension day on a Sunday? Then I look it up and lo and behold ..
"Catholic parishes in a number of countries that do not observe the feast as a public holiday have obtained permission from the Vatican to move observance of the Feast of the Ascension from the traditional Thursday to the following Sunday, the Sunday before Pentecost.''
I learn something new every time on your channel, RZ. Thank you.
That’s what we do in Confessional Lutheran Church (LCMS)
Many Catholics aren't living in Catholic countries that gives them holidays on Ascension.
3:37 fun fact: The Orthodox Church still fasts on Lent, and not only. Also in the Advent season and in other minor seasons, asn also every Friday and Wednesday. So it's not modern Christians, but Western Christians. I do not fast tbh, but the Church does.
Catholics are also encouraged to fast in Advent
I was impressed to fast one day a week, usually Thursday because of what usually happens that day, but it can be any day of the week. I just try to follow the Spirit as best I can and listen for His instruction (I of course would fast more than just that one day if I was impressed upon for that week...I also wait to eat on Sunday until after church because I figured it was a good idea). I usually only drink water on those days though, I don't often do it with liquids only besides water.
Edit: I do not practice most of these holidays, though.
2:14 Bro, imagine you're seven years old and just heard Santa is dead💀💀💀
That is absolutely fascinating!!
I hope YT releases its “Hype” feature before RZ hits 500K subs so that I can use it for him.
Weirdly enough, in Greece Santa is actually Saint Basil the Great, I have no idea how this happened
Ah yes Basil Claus
@Chance_Riceit would be more like Santa Basil
You should do a video on some artifacts like not only the shroud of turn but also the Sudarium of Oviedo
I can't wait to see the video lol (also I posted this vefore the video went live for anyone seeing this now)
I want everyone to know @Alaska_Aviation did not like their own comment.
Agree
@@BigBobBurger thanks lol
This is really interesting, but I wish you had mentioned when all these holidays are. I don't know when Advent transitions to Christmas or when Christmas transitions to Epiphany, and that seems at least somewhat important.
25th December- 5th January is the Christmas season. 12 days of Christmas. Epiphany is on 6th January.
Great collaboration with Monsieur Z
As a Catholic, I remember on Easter Sunday Mass this year, we sang “Alleluia! Sing to Jesus”
It was beautiful🥹
Beautiful hymn but it's not an Easter hymn.
@@johnmarquardt1991 So, I did some googling and found out it was an Ascension hymn. Nevertheless, it’s still beautiful.
correction: Mary received the good news from the angel Gabriel not during Advent but on March 25th.
Jesus was conceived at Chanukah and was born none months later at Sukkot, Feast of Tabernacles.
@@Lynn-r8hnot true. Christ was conceived on March 25th, which is the same day He died. He was born 9 months later on December 25th.
@ nonsense. He was conceived Kislev 25 and born Tishri 15. The calendar you are using didn’t exist when Yeshua walked in the earth. Stop teaching nonsense.
@Lynn-r8h in the Bible, Mary received good news in the sixth month, which means in the Jewish calendar the month of Adar, and what you said was kislev which is actually the ninth month, and also if the calendar is translated into gregorian then kislev is the month around november and december
@ John the Baptist was born at Passover. Jesus was born six months later at Sukkot, the 15th day of the seventh month. It’s the Feast of Tabernacles. Therefore, counting back nine months means Jesus was conceived at Hanukkah.
"See I believe that Mary is the mother of God, no nestorian ever gonna change my hart" 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣🗣🗣
you missed trinity sunday, one of the longest season😂
Missing All Saint’s Day.
Nah, as a Luteran from Cieszyn i can confirm tha we too celebrate All Saint's Day.l@@Shnitzel_Affe
No protestants celebrate it as well. I mean Lutherans for sure do
@@Shnitzel_Affe So am I, but we celebrate All Saints’ Day
And Halloween and All Souls’ Day
Minnesotan current Assembly of God member here W Video
The giant empty half that is usually called ordinary Time has the three fall holy days of the Old Testament at its center. Many people believe these refer to Christ's second coming, and they can also be understood as telling the whole story of the gospel (creation, sin and atonement, living with God)
I got 2 advent ads before this video. One from Hallow and the other from Ascension Presents. Interesting…
When I lived in Germany, I found out they also have Ascension and Corpus Christi. Imaging how glad I was when i found out these are all public holidays as well, along with Good Friday, Easter, and Pentecost, all in the spring to early summer season. Oh yeah, and Reformation Day too, at least in the Protestant states.
“Santa’s actually real, he’s just dead” 💀💀💀
12:15 nuh-uh! He's alive in heaven!
Huge St. Francis of Assisi W for loving Christmas!
⛪😇 good morning all ⛪ i am on the Altar Guild you need to know the Difference Season to set up the Altar and as when dont to put flowers on the Altar Advent as the shorter and Ordinary Sundays is 32 week
I grew up Protestant/ non-denom and I never knew that Advent was a thing until very recently. Asked my mom if she knows of it and she said, what’s that?
I’ve been around various Christians over the years, and not a single mention of it!
Consider attending an Advent service ❤✝
There seems to be a division amongst Presbyterians about participating in the church calendar. Some do, but many don’t, citing that every Lord’s day we celebrate our risen Savior, and we need no other holiday.
The is a very informative video about bs thank you
I find it interesting you reference Christ the king Sunday despite of being a relatively new catholic holiday from 1920.
What about Hallowtide? (Halloween, All Hallows’ Day, and All Souls’ Day)
This video should be required viewing for all new Christians.
Thanks for sharing
The wheel goes counter clockwise and it's mildly infuriating
for some reason that's how I've always imagined the year so deal with it lol
@@redeemedzoomer6053 😂 Aight bro God bless
Actually, the Epiphany is the end of the Christmas time in the Liturgical Year, Ash Wednesday is the beginning of Lent and you forgot Ordinary Time
Since you mentioned so many hymns in this video, you should do a traditional hymns tier list. The Church's One Foundation, for instance, is an easy S tier for me.
My church is actually in our 4th week of Advent, Celebrate for Christ is to be born soon
I have a calendar for 2025 that is in the shape of a circle and sundays are on the outside edge of the circle while Saturdays are near the center.
@@carlose4314 I believe that’s called a liturgical calendar.
Mixhaelmas is September 29th.
Also, in the Catholic Calendar the period between Pentecost and Advent is known as "Ordinary Time" -- the various liturgial "seasons"mentioned have a fixed duration so they do not cover the whole year.
The Bible has a different set of holy days.
@@Lynn-r8hin the old covenant, which are fulfilled by the Catholic feast days
@ nonsense. Man cannot usurp the will and Word of God. Read Lev. 23 for God’s ETERNAL Days. Or did God not mean it? Maybe He got it wrong.
@@Lynn-r8h man hasn’t usurped anything. Christ is God.
@ when man’s traditions usurp God’s commandments, one should leave the traditions. God gave mankind HIS holy days. Why does mankind try to toss those out and institute their own. See Lev. 23.
Any one have thoughts on pastor Dan Mohler ?
4;24 I would SAY another Palm SUnday hymn is "Hosanna loud Hosanna" Good Friday "Old Rugged Cross" Easter Sunday "Christ the Lord Is Risen Today"
You forgot about St. Brigid's, Candlemass, St. Patrick's, Annunciation, Lammas (aka Firstfruits or Loafmass), Exaltation of the Cross, Dormition, Conception of Our Lady, and Presentation of Our Lady. Also Lent and Advent are not holidays (feasts); they're the anti-holidays (fasts).
Also Hallowtide
almost every day in the year has a saint so almost every day is a christian holiday
For my catholic and orthodox brothers, Merry (early) Christmas (AKA Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ)
I have some friends who don’t celebrate Christmas, because “it’s pagan” and “the Bible doesn’t tell us to celebrate Christ’s birth.” They also don’t celebrate Easter, which is something I’ve never heard of. They say a similar argument, and they instead follow Jewish holidays.
I’d love to know your response on this, and a rebuttal if you have one. I find it….insane, to be frank, but I don’t know how to respond lol 😂
There is a Rebuttal, the 1646 Westminster Confession declares the Jewish Festivals as Abrogated through their fulfilment in Christ.
This means that anyone who keeps the Jewish feasts, which pointed to Jesus, is denying that He is the Messiah, and is thus under the full Mosaic Law and must keep all 613 Points Perfectly and without fail, for they are Ineligible for for the Grace of Jesus Christ, and are doomed to Hell unless they Repent and Declare Jesus as Christ, God and Lord and cease to observe the Abrogated Jewish Feasts!
4:01 Correction Not all Christians Practise Ash Wednesday. For example we in the Free Methodist church don't do Ash Wednesday but acknowledge Lent. Its only the most trad churches such as Catholic Orthodox or Protestant that participate in Ash Wednesday.
Very handy, thank you!
In Australia, Ash Wednesday is also the day of an infamous bushfire that was, until 2009, the worst bushfire day by lives lost. The name just makes it ironic.
You got the colors wrong but I vibe with it anyway
Thank you for this sir
“You’re a sinner. And you’re gonna DIE.” I’m so weak 😭😂 that got me more than it should have.
Fat Tuesday (aka Shrove Tuesday & Mardi Gras) is also a Christian holiday.
I remember on Pentecost, one of the songs was composed by one of my priests. It was pretty cool.
Early Merry Christmas guys
Blessed Advent to you! ❤✝