Christmas Season Starts With a "BER"

At night, the strong winds continued to roar like sirens outside the ‘tween deck aboard the Mayflower. At least we had firewood and the galley stove could be kept running, but our food rations were being stretched thinner each day. No one celebrated on Christmas Day. I was told by thirteen-year-old Elizabeth Tilley that Christmas didn’t mean much to the Separatists.

“Religious holidays like Christmas are pagan in origin,” she told me, “and therefor an abomination on the name of Jesus Christ.”

I found that impossible to comprehend. Filipino families adore Christmas. We begin preparations for that wonderful holiday at the start of what we call the “Ber” months: September, October, et cetera, all the way up to New Year’s. 

Not celebrating Christmas sounded like an abomination to me. 

-- Christmas season starts with a "Ber"

from Time Trip #3: Witness to the First Thanksgiving

 

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