Your Christmas Tree, will you have one this year?

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I just put up my artifical Christmas tree up yesterday. (5 hours of getting the box, setting up the tree stand, opening up and spreading the branches and stems [glad I sorted them out by size last year],)

WIll you have a tree this years and how will you decorate it (color schemes, by subject or theme, traditional, etc). And who will help you decorate the tree?

(And if anyone has pictures and want to share that would be great!
 
We cut our yesterday at put it in it’s stand and…we will decorate it eventually…😉 traditional.
 
The tree I put up is artifical and will be themed in the color blue. (Last year was red). The theme will be all shade and styles of blue, and a mixture of different styles of orinaments. (plastic, satin, glass, antique, novelty, etc).

(It’s too be I don’t have a digital camera or I’d post the pic once the decorations are on the tree).

Go with God!
Edwin
 
Good Morning Church,

We bought one of the new artificial ones with the lights pre-strung, 2 years ago. We like it a lot. It looks real and we just burn pine smelling candles. Hardly know the difference.

The real ones were just getting too hard for my hubby to deal with.

We love the Holidays and do decorate.
 
My daughters have their own homes now & I’ve just recently moved into a much smaller home. I also work 2 jobs, so my tree is a small artificlal tree and in my atic at the moment. I go out & cut a lot of fresh greens the week before Christmas so my house smells like Christmas. There’s nothing like that fresh pine smell.

Blessed Christmas to all,
Shannin
 
You betcha we do a tree every year. Two young boys its a must.

I have spent a week putting up lights and lawn deco’s in the yard.

I even string lights up INSIDE my house. Looks good at night.

We are doing a Jesse tree this year, as a family, we need to always remember WHY we celebrate Christmas.
 
I can hardly wait to get out my flicker lamp candelabra out and set it in the window.
 
Trees are for the kids.My kids are all gone. So why have a tree? I have 4 trees in my yard. What does a Christmas Tree represent anyway? It is an old custom from Germany. No, there will be no tree in my house. I have nothing against trees,but also I have nothing positive to say for trees either.
 
Used to get into the Christmas spirit and go out and kill a tree… :bigyikes:

gotten old i suppose… bought a plastic one… haven’t killed one in about 5 years… 👍
 
Germans must have trees, pleeeese. However, my parents are slipping. When I was in the house, it was a real balsam. I left, and it degraded to a fake tree. This year, they actually suggested that they skip putting up a tree and instead decorate the 15 foot tall Banana Tree that is growing in the foyer. Pug is totally disgusted.

P.S. Maybe its time for me to consider assited living for them in Sunset Ville…
 
lol…u give me no choice,i live alone and will no t decoratete…there is no bah humbug involved
 
I live alone too, even though my brother comes by now and then. My tree is up.

My parents, mostly my mother, was pessimistic and after a while she just didn’t want a tree. After she died, my father would take the upper part of the 6foot artifical (which would be about 2 feet tall) and put that on a table and decorate that.

After dad moved in with me, I always had a tree. Yet, after my dad passed away two years ago, I didn’t have a tree. But starting with last year, I decided to put up a tree again for myself and anyone who’d stop by.

I get an enjoyment in the putting up and planning how do decorate it. It’s just tradition.
 
Stop…Think…Can you think of even one Spiritual reson for a Christmas Tree? Then, can you think of even one Practical Reason for a Christmas Tree?

I do not find Christmas Trees in the Bible nor in the writings of the Early Church Fathers.

Do you think the Apostles put up Christmas trees in their geographical region? They didn’t have evergreen trees.

I am an uneducated man, so possibly someone can enlighten me about this Christmas Tree Fad.
  1. When were Christmas Trees introduced?
  2. What is the Spiritual Relavence? ( Could they be a Pagan Custom?)
  3. What is the Practical significance of a Christmas Tree.
Most certainly some of you enlightened posters can help me. Thanks.
 
Used to get into the Christmas spirit and go out and kill a tree…

gotten old i suppose… bought a plastic one… haven’t killed one in about 5 years…​

That’s okay. Most of the trees around here are farmed.
 
Germans used to put candles on them to symbolize Christ. I see the lights as the same, but safer. The modern tree custom originated in Germany around the reformation (not a history buff, don’t know dates well). In fact, wafers used to be hung on them, which relates to the Eucharist and Christ too. Evergreens are very appropriate symbols of everlasting life. Advent wreaths have evergreens, too.

The beauty of the tree is like how glorious was the coming of the Christ. For people like me, the tree has been used in my family for many generations in celebration of Christmas. Using one is keeping the family ways for celebrating Christ’s birth. I even have a very old wooden one that has candle holders on it that has been in the family. I need to shore it up. It is too rickety to light them now.
 
We have an artificial tree, as my husband has a skin allergy to pines. Also, the plastic/metal branches make it less likely that our two cats will try to climb the tree and succeed in tipping it over.

That will go up sometime in the next couple of weeks. The Advent wreath will go out tomorrow, then the door wreath, outdoor lights, and Nativity scene (minus the baby Jesus, who goes out on Christmas Eve after Mass).
 
Was that option about worshiping the tree a joke? I mean people don’t actually worship the tree … do they?

Anyway, we use a real tree. When we bring it in we pray that Our Creator, will help us to be mindful to give food and drink to eachother as we give food and drink to the tree etc.

While it’s being placed in the stand we pray that as we give this tree a home, we may remember the homeless and the poor. To be thankful that we are together etc.

As we place the lights … Jesus, Lord of light, we stand in awe as we take our parts in bringing light to this tree. Help us to understand how far Your light can reach and into how many corners it needs to be brought …etc.

What theme? Classic children friendly. We spend Advent making ornaments. We string the lights when the tree is put up, but we hold off on the decorating until Christmas Eve. My husband bakes cookies, while we listen to Christmas carols, string popcorn and place the ornaments on the tree. Then it’s bedtime for the kids, and mommy and daddy sit in front of the fireplace and admire the tree, sharing some wine and romance.

I love Christmas!!

PS The prayers and other wonderful child friendly ideas for the Advent season can be found in a mini-book called “Advent Begins at Home”
 
I always put up a tree, for several years now an artificial.
Most people don´t decorate for Christmas here till after
December 6 (St. Nicolas that is the one that brings
presents to the kids here…:o)
Most people do hang a lighted star in their window
or another lighted item. Which does look really pretty.
I do have my homemade adventwreath out and will
lit the first candle tomorrow.

Emmy
 
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Stop…Think…Can you think of even one Spiritual reson for a Christmas Tree? .
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Ummmmmm … Jesus died on a cross which came from a tree. As was aleady mentioned the evergreen points to the unchangeableness of God, the lights to Jesus being THE LIGHT. The star on the top represents the North star or the angel for the announcement.

On a practical note, it’s pretty, it’s fun and it encourages a sense of joy and togetherness in our family as a visible reminder of what a special and Holy season it is.

Personally I don’t care where it originated.Whether pagans used it inappropriately or not … who cares? They also used sex inappropriatley. And to answer your other question … the tree originated with God (and sex too) found in Genesis.😃

IGod bless!
 
Yes, it is about 6 inches tall, with mini-lites and mini-ornaments, made for a doll’s house. I set it next the the crib scene I got in Mexico a couple of years go. I thought baby Jesus would enjoy it.
 
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