The title is basically part of what I am studying with SEITE at the moment. If I’m honest I do not yet see how this links with where I am feel God is leading me next, but I understand that an understanding of how things have developed is important as it helps us to see where we have attached traition and baggage, and so what we can discard and change, and what is core, and so unchangeable! I thionk that makes sense!

Tonight we were looking at how the liturgical year developed. One thing I found amazing and will share with you so you can see how boring I really am becoming – maybe the cloning process is starting. I am relying on those of you that see me regularly to start the rapid process of de-cloning!

What I was amazed by was the whole thing around the dating of Christmas. I had always believed that we had just nicked a pagan festival and christianised it as Jesus was born sometime around that date. That is one theory.

There is another, weirdly interesting one, called the computation theory. The idea is that the incarnation must have been perfect and lasted anexact numberof years. Some believe Christs actual death was on March 25th. If this were the case, the computation/perfect incarnation/full number of years theory would mean that Jesus was conceived on March 25th. If he was conceived on March 25th, 9 months gets us to … Dec. 25th! Others felt Christ died on April 6th … the same patern followed brings us to Jan 6th for a birth – Epiphinay.

Ok … tell me, I am being sucked in!