Christmas 2020 -Different festivities but same Xmas spirit
By: Enr Consultancy Services
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Christmas returns, like every year, with its load of emotions, with its rituals, its lights, its colours.

As we know this year Christmas and the holidays will be a little different from usual due to the epidemiological situation but this does not make this moment less important, nor can it extinguish the Christmas spirit that dwells in each of us.

Origins and meaning

on Christmas day the birth of Jesus Christ is celebrated, the one who would later be identified by most of the members of the Jewish religion as the Messiah prophesied by the Holy Scriptures.

In addition to religious ones, Christmas also has pagan and secular origins. The most significant are those related to the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year that the Celts celebrated on December 25th. It is a very important holiday in all those cults in which the adoration of the Sun occupied a position of absolute pre-eminence, and to which Christianity has certainly linked itself, as the sun can be seen as an emblem of the figure of Christ.

The Romans, on the other hand, in the days just before Christmas, used to celebrate the Saturnalia, dedicated to the settlement in the temple of Saturn, the god of agriculture: to wish a period of peace and prosperity, it was customary to exchange gifts.

Xmas 2020

This Christmas is different from other years: the economic crisis that grips, the virus that has uncovered the deep social inequality and widened the gap between the rich and the rest of the increasingly poor population, the shopping streets with many closed shutters, solidarity that the great difficulties of recent months have made a concrete and urgent practice even today — helping neighbours, parcels for needy families, collecting food, helping people who really don’t know how to go on.

This year it is better not to meet in order not to put the health of the most fragile categories at risk but as happened during the dark days of the lockdown, a video call will unite us. Smarter families can organize a video meeting on zoom, a chorus of greetings each from their own homes and maybe from different cities will make us feel less alone with the connected technology that brings us together as if in front of an imaginary hearth.

Moreover, this is undoubtedly one of the holidays most felt by children. Despite the situation we are experiencing, it is essential that parents are able to recreate the magic and atmosphere of this holiday.

What to do to recreate Xmas spirit?

1) decorate the house together with the little ones.

2)open presents in “video company”: the opening of the gifts can be done via video call, to share the moment even with uncles, grandparents and friends who cannot be met

3) virtually meet Santa Claus: fortunately, however, he has a good internet connection

4) rediscover the value of Christmas: without spectacular events, abundant dinners and wild shopping rushes, families have the opportunity to rethink the true meaning of Christmas

5) treat yourself to an imaginary vacation: by creating themed disguises, reading a book, devising specific activities to do together with the child it will be possible to reach even the most fantastic and remote place

6) shorten distances with Christmas matching pyjamas: no hugs? The heat is transmitted with a pyjama!

7) cooking Christmas recipes: preparing family biscuits from “from scratch” dough, perhaps following a traditional grandmother’s recipe, rolling out, cutting and decorating with Christmas “cutters” will make children’s snacks unique even in the days following the holiday

8) create a Christmas playlist: by singing together and having fun to the sound of music, joy is guaranteed!