God Made the Seasons for a Reason

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God made the seasons for a reason: The winter reminds us of Jesus’s birth. The late winter reminds us of His suffering during lent. The spring reminds us of Jesus’s resurrection. The green leaves on the trees in the summer remind us of the green worn by Priests during the regular liturgical season. The fall reminds us of Jesus’s suffering with the leaves turning blood red.

I don’t know if this is accurate or not. Maybe I’m just insane! :whacky:
 
Melodeonist said:
God made the seasons for a reason: The winter reminds us of Jesus’s birth. The late winter reminds us of His suffering during lent. The spring reminds us of Jesus’s resurrection. The green leaves on the trees in the summer remind us of the green worn by Priests during the regular liturgical season. The fall reminds us of Jesus’s suffering with the leaves turning blood red.

I don’t know if this is accurate or not. Maybe I’m just insane! :whacky:
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In tropical countries there are no seasons as in cold countries. I live in the Philippines and there is no Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter.
 
Add to that two further considerations.

First, our friends in Australia, where Christmas is in the summer.

And second, there is an argument that Jesus was born in the autumn or spring, as the shepherds would be in the field keeping watch because of lambing. Shepherds don’t generally stay out all night in winter. Why would they? If you are thinking, ‘To protect the sheep from wolves’, if there was danger of wolves, any sensible shepherd would either write off a certain number of sheep, or else keep the sheep in some kind of walled enclosure with dogs to guard them. They wouldn’t be out with the sheep in the fields and it wouldn’t be snowy like in a Christmas card either. I read somewhere that the climate of Palestine was damp and chilly during winter, not deep snow and ice. That (admittedly pretty) carol ‘In the bleak midwinter’ has a lot to answer for.
 
The seasons (for those of us in the northern hemisphere who experience such cyclical change) are often compared to the stages of a person’s life as well: Spring = the flower of youth, Summer = the prime of adult life, Autumn = middle age, and Winter = old age (I’m somewhere between Autumn and Winter ;)).

Apply it to Our Lord’s life, and Spring could be His birth and early life, Summer could be His active ministry, Autumn could be His passion, and Winter could be His death, making possible the promise of an Eternal Spring, our salvation 👍.
 
christofirst said:
The seasons (for those of us in the northern hemisphere who experience such cyclical change) are often compared to the stages of a person’s life as well: Spring = the flower of youth, Summer = the prime of adult life, Autumn = middle age, and Winter = old age (I’m somewhere between Autumn and Winter ;)).

Apply it to Our Lord’s life, and Spring could be His birth and early life, Summer could be His active ministry, Autumn could be His passion, and Winter could be His death, making possible the promise of an Eternal Spring, our salvation 👍.
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Your analogy is better than mine! 👍
 
paperwight66 said:
Add to that two further considerations.

First, our friends in Australia, where Christmas is in the summer.

And second, there is an argument that Jesus was born in the autumn or spring, as the shepherds would be in the field keeping watch because of lambing. Shepherds don’t generally stay out all night in winter. Why would they? If you are thinking, ‘To protect the sheep from wolves’, if there was danger of wolves, any sensible shepherd would either write off a certain number of sheep, or else keep the sheep in some kind of walled enclosure with dogs to guard them. They wouldn’t be out with the sheep in the fields and it wouldn’t be snowy like in a Christmas card either. I read somewhere that the climate of Palestine was damp and chilly during winter, not deep snow and ice. That (admittedly pretty) carol ‘In the bleak midwinter’ has a lot to answer for.
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All the carols have a North Atlantic bias to them. That’s ok, as they are sung in the Atlantic nations.

I’ve been to the Holy Land (though not in winter) and live at the same latitude (eight time-zones due W.). Although in both regions, snow may fall only generationally; the winter weather can still be described as “bleak,” with the sun muted by thick weather fronts and temperatures falling near freezing point.

And around here anyhow, flocks are indeed grazed in the open in winter.

ICXC NIKA
 
GEddie said:
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And around here anyhow, flocks are indeed grazed in the open in winter.

ICXC NIKA
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Well, yes, here in the UK as well. But my point was, shepherds don’t usually stay out with the sheep in winter. What would be the point? They’d stand no chance of saving the sheep if there were wolves about intent on snatching them, even with several dogs, and so would have had the sheep penned or in byres if there was a danger of wolves. Conversely, they wouldn’t be sitting around just to keep the sheep company out in the open if it was cold. Would you?

The shepherds were mentioned as being with the sheep at night at the time of the birth of Jesus. Ergo, Jesus was not born in the depths of winter, but during lambing when the shepherds would be’ keeping watch over the sheep by night’ as the Gospel says…
 
thistle said:
In tropical countries there are no seasons as in cold countries. I live in the Philippines and there is no Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter.
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Do you have a rainy season and dry season? I wonder how a similar analogy could be applied to that.
 
So today or tomorrow, or someday next week could be Christmas! : )
 
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