<img src="http://beta.prosveta.com/resources/sites/@site_id/images/themes/hiver2015-16_bandeauA.jpg" alt="" width="683" height="40"><br>\n<p><img style="float: right;" src="http://beta.prosveta.com/resources/sites/@site_id/images/themes/hiver2015-16_bougie.jpg" alt="" width="232" height="391"><br>"Why do we celebrate Christmas in the beginning of winter? <br>The answer is found in the Book of Nature.</p>\n<p>All life begins with a seed, buried in the darkness of the earth or a woman’s womb. Winter is the season when a long work of germination is carried out in the seeds sown in the earth, ending in spring with the birth of a multitude of new existences. And an identical work takes place in the psyche of each human being: in the dark earth of his lower nature, the seed of the divine Self, the Christ, must begin to germinate. It is this event that Christians celebrate on Christmas Eve.</p>\n<p>Yes, it is at night, at midnight, at the moment of the most profound darkness that a birth takes place. This is why, in spite of the cold and dark, Christmas is also the festival of light."</p>\n<p class="ref">Daily Meditations, December 25, 2005<br><br></p>\n<table width="550">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style="text-align: center;">\n<p>Christmas and<br>the New Year</p>\n</td>\n<td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">[B0301AN:image|width=100]</td>\n<td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">[B0401AN:image|width=100]</td>\n<td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">[P0209AN:image|width=100]</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<br><img src="http://beta.prosveta.com/resources/sites/@site_id/images/themes/hiver2015-16_encadre-1A.jpg" alt="" width="324" height="461"><img src="http://beta.prosveta.com/resources/sites/@site_id/images/themes/hiver2015-16_encadre-2A.jpg" alt="" width="342" height="461">\n<div><br>\n<p class="video">[!:video|ref=-U5K8v7hRmA:title=EXTRAIT VIDÉO:image=themes/extraitvideo_themeNoel_A.jpg:imagewidth=444]</p>\n<br><hr>\n<p style="text-align: center;">     </p>\n<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="[themesmois_spring2015:url]"><br>| Spring and Easter |</a> <a href="[themesmois_summer2015:url]">Summer |</a> <a href="[themesmois_fall2015:url]">Autumn |</a> <br><br></div>\n</div>