Many families set up Christmas trees for Christmas. This custom is based both on the words of the prophet Isaiah about the Savior: “And there will be a branch from the root of Jesse, and a branch will grow from his root” (Isaiah 11: 1), and on the words of church hymns in honor of the event of the Nativity of Christ: “Christ is a branch from the root of Jesse, and from him you grew the flower from the Virgin. "
Decorating cut branches of Christmas trees with candles, lights and sweets shows that our nature is a barren and lifeless branch, only in Jesus Christ - the source of life, light and joy - can bring spiritual fruits: love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, mercy, faith , meekness, abstinence (see: Gal. 5, 22-23).
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