Christmas

Press, 26 December 1985, Page 12

Christmas

Sir,—The description of Christmas as “the silly season” is apt. I have full intentions to continue working and striving to be creative about the use of my time. I believe that unless one is a sincere Christian celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, which is what Christmas is meant to be all about, then the celebration and the wasting of one’s time on the matter is sheer hypocrisy.—Yours, etc., ROBIN BOOTH. December 23, 1985.

Sir,—l point out to Mr Mulcock that my name is Kenneth, not Ken, and discourtesy is no substitute for argument His statement that had we been at the Last Supper it would never have occurred to us that the ceremony was to take place every Sunday morning, is presumptuous if applied to anyone but himself, and to the traditions of the Roman Catholic, Orthodox and

Anglican Churches, as well as the unvarying practice of John Wesley. A description in the Acts of the Apostles of the first Christians, credits them with continuing “steadfast in the breaking of the bread and the prayers.” St John makes it clear that the crucifixion took place on the preparation of the Passover and not on the Passover itself, and therefore the Last Supper was the night before that. The scriptural writers, like Continental Europeans, used inclusive reckoning, so Friday to Sunday counts as three whole days. Mr Mulcock quotes the “Book of Common Prayer”. Dangerous ground, but a separate issue — Yours, etc., KENNETH SCHOLLAR. December 23, 1985.