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CHOCOLATE DAY 

February 9, 2024 

” If there is chocolate in your heart,

then chocolate really is the world’s

perfect food.” –  jotsna jari 💚

Dear Chocolate…   We love you. Chocolate just wonderful gift. Chocolate Day is celebrated every year on February 9, 2023. Now loved ones gift each other chocolates and relationship always remains sweet. Chocolates can be consumed as a drink, an edible bar etc. The love birds mark this Day with their emotions and love for each other in the form of romantic chocolate and more. Chocolates are enjoyed by all age groups and people consume it in different forms, either in the form of chocolate cake, chocolate ice cream, or chocolate mousse. The chocolate industry of Switzerland is magnificent and in the entire world the highest consumption of chocolate is in Switzerland. The History and Significance of Chocolate Day also important in Valentine’s week. Chocolate contains flavonoids that may help protect against heart disease. Dark chocolate is higher in flavonoids than other forms of chocolate. Remember to enjoy chocolate in moderation. Happy Chocolate Day forever. 

Happy Chocolate Day 

🔺 History : 

Over the years, chocolate and Valentine’s Day have become synonymous with each other. On this day, lovers and couples exchange tasty chocolates with each other as an expression of love and gratitude. People have different speculations regarding the origin of chocolate and how chocolate gained popularity among the public. The first Chocolate was introduced in Europe in 1550. Chocolate is manufactured from the fruit of cacao tree. The cacao tree was first grown around thousand years ago. Baker’s Chocolate was the first chocolate company that got set up in America. Later many chocolate companies were opened up in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The word chocolate is originally said to be derived from the Spanish language. Some experts believe that the word chocolate comes from the maya and Aztec civilizations. In the Aztec language, chocolate means sour or bitter.

Chocolate is 4000 years old, it was born in Mesoamerica, which is today called Mexico. The people of mexico can also be credited with the discovery of chocolate. Those people are the first to see and use chocolate trees in the rainforests of the amazon basin. It was consumed as a beverage, its taste was bitter and pungent. In the beginning, chocolate was also used as a currency. 

Story of the king of Spain:

In 1521, the Spanish Empire defeated the Aztec Empire and annexed mexico into its empire and it came to be called New Spain. Meanwhile, the chocolate discovered in mexico reached Spain. The king of spain liked the taste of cocoa so much that he took cocoa seeds with him to Spain. This taste also became popular in a very short time among the people of Spain. When chocolate was entered in spain, it was considered full of medicinal properties. 

Chocolate’s europe Tour:

It is said that chocolate reached europe before coffee and tea. As soon as it reached europe, the demand for chocolate increased suddenly. In 1850, an Englishman made the first solid chocolate. He mixed cocoa butter and sugar in cocoa powder. From here was born the form of chocolate that is used today.

🔺 Significance : 

We should also know the manufacturing process of the chocolates. In the first step cocoa beans are roasted and by the process of roasting the color and taste gets developed in the chocolate. Then the cocoa liquor is formed by the process of grinding the beans. The cocoa liquor formed finally gets mixed with sugar and cocoa butter to form the final product that we consume. The product is loved by one and all so we dedicate a special day and celebrate it as Office Chocolate Day in our work place.

People have different opinions regarding the chocolates. Some say that by eating dark chocolates memory power gets increased. Chocolate is considered as a great source of antioxidants. Consuming chocolates can improve the blood flow and the risk of heart diseases gets lowered. The per capita consumption of chocolate in Switzerland is 8.8 kg. Some people prefer sweet chocolate whereas others like dark and bitter chocolates. On this chocolate day, lovers and couples exchange tasty chocolates with each other as an expression of love and gratitude.

🔺 Benefits :

1.  It Manages Their Stress :- 

Who isn’t stressed out these days? Both you and your employees are constantly under a pile of stress. Being stressed constantly can have a very negative effect on your overall health. To better control your stress, take a big bite of dark chocolate.

The dark chocolate will stimulate the production of endorphins in your body that will make you feel happy. Taking a little nibble here and there after lunch will not only help control your piling stress, but will keep you from hitting the dreaded 3 o’clock slump. Chocolate is packed with stimulants like theobromine and caffeine that will perk you up after lunch..

2.   It Will Keep Their Heart Healthy :- 

Consuming small amounts of dark chocolate throughout the week can help protect your employees from heart complications. Chocolate protects your heart from everything like heart attacks to hardening of arteries to poor blood flow.

3. It Boosts Their Immune System :- 

Keep your employees happy & healthy with chocolate. Dark chocolate has high levels of Catechins, which are proven to help boost your body’s immune system. As you know, once one employee gets sick, it’s a tissue filled domino effect from there. Run down to your snack vending machine and grab a bar of chocolate to defend yourself and your employees from coming down with a cold. Your employees will use less sick days, which will increase the workflow in your office.

4.  Feelings of love :- 

Eating Dark Chocolate releasesPhenylethylamine and Serotonin

. The chemical Phenylethylamine a chemical much like amphetamine is released in the brain when individuals feel love. The release of which is helped along by Serotonin, the combination of the increased levels of these chemicals induce feelings of love.

🔺Chocolate Day :  Quotes

1.  Caramels are only a food. Chocolate is a permanent thing.

2.  Chocolate is a gift of love to yourself.

3.  Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.

4.  There is nothing better than a friend unless it is a friend with chocolate.

5.  Anything is good  if it’s made of chocolate.

6.  Chocolate is happiness that you can eat.

7.  Look, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolates. 

8.  As long as there is chocolate, there will be happiness. 

9.  When we don’t have the words, Chocolate can speak volumes.

10.  When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.  

🔺 Chocolate Day Poem : 

Come to the sunshine of dream

 we embrace happiness 

 The neighborhood is covered

 in sleep and fog 

 The dews whisper on the street 

 how much it speaks in silence…  

 Did you walk

 on a foggy morning 

 With the random talk of curly life…  

 are you sitting 

 in front of the heat of fire…  

 Let us burn away 

 the days of old pain 

 Even if there is no festival & celebration

 on the beginning of the year in new life… 

 we tie our hands 

 in the bridge of mind & human bond

 I bend my knees and say… 

 All the best 

 The sound of the bell

 in the quiet night

 find the way

 in the sweet dawn… 

 All the best.  

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🌹Poem  : Chocolate Day Celebration

     Poet  :  jotsna jari 

FAQs : Chocolate Day 2024

1.  Why do we celebrate Chocolate Day?

Ans:-  Every year, on February 09, the world celebrates Chocolate day to express their love for their loved ones

. It is one of the most cherished days of the complete Valentine’s week as it consists of taste buds.

2.  What was the significance of Chocolate Day ?

Ans:-  The main intent of Chocolate Day is to let your partner know how sweet you find them and how wholesome they make your life

. The day is for all chocolate lovers to unite and celebrate their favourite chocolate and gift their loved ones the same.

3.  How do you celebrate Chocolate Day?

Ans:-  Chocolate Day (9th Feb): Choose chocolates that your partner loves, such as dark chocolate, milk chocolate, or white chocolate

. You could also consider pairing the chocolates with a romantic card or a bouquet of flowers to make the gesture even sweeter.

4.  What is the date of Chocolate Day in February?

Ans:-  February 9 – Chocolate Day Chocolate Day, observed on February 9, is the third day of Valentine’s Week. People exchange chocolates with their crushes or lovers, forgetting any unpleasant and nasty sentiments in their relationships.

5.  What does chocolate do to your hormones?

Ans:-  Four chemicals are known to be released by the brain when eating chocolate: endorphins, serotonin, dopamine, and oxytocin

. These chemicals are used by neurons to communicate with one another.

6.  Which hormone is related to chocolate?

Ans:-  Cocoa (the primary ingredient used to make chocolates), according to various studies, triggers the brain to release endorphins

, the “feel good” hormones. However, dark chocolate triggers maximum endorphin release.

7.  Does chocolate give you oxytocin?

Ans:-  Yes, chocolate can improve your mood. It increases the release of oxytocin

, a hormone responsible for feelings of pleasure.

8.  Is chocolate a love drug?

Ans:-  When consumed, it releases endorphins in your brain that produce a mild feeling of euphoria, mimicking the sensation of being in love. So chocolate really is a love drug! 

PROPOSE DAY 

February 8, 2024 

“In fact nothing can be lost

everything remains

in the secret locker of proposed mind… ” 

– jotsna jari 

Propose is to offer or suggest a possible plan or action for other people to consider. Yes. If you propose to someone, you ask that person to marry you. Propose Day is the second day of Valentine’s week. This will be after the celebrations of Rose Day on February 7. So people will celebrate Propose Day on February 8. Oh…  I should make my partner feel special and valued on this wonderful day. Then I need an unique and romantic way of proposing to my lover on Propose Day. The large number of young people give roses to propose to their prospective girlfriend or boyfriend. This is the second day in Valentine Week. But Valentine’s Day is celebrated across whole world, Valentine Week is something celebrated in India only. This week marks different festivities across India. 

Happy Propose Day 

🔺 History of Proposal :  

🔸The Kneeling :- 

The idea of ​​kneeling down on one knee as essential to ideal proposal is not rooted in history;  It appears to be a largely modern invention, but it is not clear how it originated.  Indeed, images of aristocratic marriages throughout history always depict both parties as standing or seated;  No kneeling shows at all.

  A possible source of the modern kneeling ideal is the tradition of courtly love in the Middle Ages, where a man of good birth essentially devoted himself to a noble woman whom he considered superior.  The whole principle of this popular attitude was that man was a kind of slave to woman, whom he idealized beyond all reality;  And he performed his servitude on his knees, both spiritually and figuratively.  (Whether they ever actually got together is a matter of historical debate. In many cases. many of the women in question were married.) Kneeling represented feudal submission and admiration.  Historians debate whether some medieval images show men bowing to their courtly loves or their male masters.

  But in European history, kneeling was generally a sign of prayer, humility, and servitude.  Many Christian forms of prayer, for example, include kneeling, expressing your service before God, and being humbled;  And it is also noted that kneeling among men was a major symptom of the condition.  Knights knelt before their lords to receive honor, and surrendering armies knelt before their conquerors.  Kneeling before the woman you are about to marry can be part of the same thing: a request for her favor and a physical display of obedience and surrender.  It appears to have first appeared in the 19th century.  

🔸 The Ring :-  

The first reliable record of engagement rings for women, announcing that they would marry a specific man in the future, dates to the Roman era, where married women were given a gold ring to wear in public and an iron ring to wear at home.  Time to do housework.

  But rings as a symbol of engagement have probably been around for centuries, but they became law at several points.  The Visigothic Code, a set of 7th-century Spanish laws, declared that a wedding ring, once given, could not be revoked;  You had to get married.  In 860 Pope Nicholas I tried to make an expensive, gold engagement ring legally required, so that men could make a significant financial sacrifice and take marriage seriously.  And the concept of a “marriage” as a legal term was incorporated into Christian church law in 1215.

  The first recorded engagement ring with diamonds dates back to 1477.  This ring was given to 20-year-old Mary of Burgundy by Archduke Maximilian of Austria as a wedding gift.  (Tragically, Mary died at the age of 25 after a horse-riding accident).

  After Mary of Burgundy, the real beginnings of the diamond engagement ring tradition only emerged in the late 1800s, when a mining company formed a jewelry division, De Beers.  De Beers’ master stroke came in the 1930s and 40s.  The “Diamonds Are Forever” ad campaigns that diamonds are rare, expensive, and the only effective way to propose marriage.  De Beers consciously created the status of the diamond engagement ring, and it is still the most successful advertising concept of all time.  In most Western countries diamond engagement rings are now seen as the only acceptable option when a person announces their intention to marry. 

🔸 Gender Roles :- 

 In Scotland, Ireland and England, 29 February in a leap year is said to be the one day when a woman can propose to her partner. Finland has the same custom, with the addition that a man rejecting such a proposal was expected to buy his suitor enough cloth for a skirt as compensation.

                                  Alexandria Victoria,

                                 Queen of United Kingdom

                                 (1819 – 1901)

 As a monarch, Queen Victoria had to propose to Prince Albert. Proposals by women have become more common in the English-speaking world in recent years, so jewelry companies have manufactured engagement rings for men. In the United States, about 5% of proposals are made by women. Younger people are less likely to approve of women proposing. 

                                  Prince Albert (1819 – 1861)

🔺 Men get on one knee to propose :

 The overwhelming majority of men drop to one knee when it’s time to ask for the hand of their beloved. But why?

  As marriage proposals get more and more elaborate, one longstanding tradition remains.

 The overwhelming majority of men drop to one knee when it’s time to ask for the hand of their beloved.

 It’s a tradition that goes back to medieval times when knights dropped to one knee out of respect for royalty.Chivalry was very much alive back then. Kneeling and bowing were signs of their devotion and obedience.

 Proposing while on bended knee is a display of respect for a future bride.

 That piece is something that makes a man a man. It’s out of courtesy and history and tradition.

 The  Research says that in 2017, 85 percent of the men who proposed to their mate did so on one knee.

 It’s one of those traditions that is as old as time. It shows a lot of respect for the family, to your partner.

🔺 Propose Day Quotes :

The Bells are ringing in my heart, and my mind is out of control. Say it if you’re feeling the same, or should I take the backdoor?

 Every beautiful thing deserves to be praised. Will you allow me to become your praiser for a lifetime?

 I don’t want to wait for you to come for a meeting. I want to take you to meet your other friends. Can we extend our friendship to a new level? Will you be my girlfriend and share life with me?

 We are so perfect together that we have started complementing each other. I love you, sweetheart! Will you marry me?

Life is not the number of breaths you take, it’s the moments that take your breath away. And Darling, the moment I see you, I forget to breathe. I Love You!

 You are my North, my South, my East and West. I don’t need any direction in life when you’re with me. You are the sun of my morning and the night of my Day. I don’t want my days to end when you’re with me. I Love You, Baby!

 You are the one I wanted to find, to tell that I need you all my life, from this Day until the rest of my life. Will you marry me, my dear amigo?

 You’re in my thoughts all day long. So, on this Day, I propose to you and invite you to live in my heart all my life. Will you come and live here?

 Expressing my love for you is difficult but trust me, you are the only one I need in my life. Would you be mine forever?

 You give me the kind of feelings that people write about in their novels. Will you be my happy beginning and ending?

 You have given a new meaning to my life, sweetheart. Today I want you to be mine always. Happy Propose Day, Sweetheart!

When all my dreams come true, the one I want next to me – it’s you. Will you be my Valentine for the rest of our lives?

 To me, you are perfect. I need you for the rest of my life.

 When you’re a kid, you assume your parents are soulmates. I want my kids to be right about that. Will you help me in fulfilling this wish?

 I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever. But I promise never to forget that this is a once-in-a-lifetime love. Do you feel the same about me?

 You know you are right for someone when they force you to be the best version of yourself.

All I want is your company for the rest of my life. You are my best friend. Happy Propose Day!

 Growing old with you will be the greatest gift that God can give me. Will you pray for us?

 All I have ever wanted from life is always to have you by my side and nothing else. See, I got you. Happy propose Day!

 What will happen if I stole your heart and you stole mine? Will that be okay with you? Happy Propose Day!!

🔺 Propose Day Poetry :

Oh !  My beautiful bae

understand  come here

I wait for you.

.

Blue sky kiss my head

Charming moment

kiss my hand

.

In this time  I say you

something

you are my bae

you are my love

Come here soon.

    đź’›Poem : Propose Day. Poet : Jotsna Jari

FAQs : Propose Day  2024 

1.  Which day is best for Propose Day?

Ans:-  Propose Day is celebrated on 8 February

 as a day to propose to one’s significant other. A large number of young people give roses to propose to their prospective girlfriend or boyfriend. It is the second day in Valentines Week.

2.  What did propose mean?

Ans:-  Propose is to offer or suggest a possible plan or action for other people to consider. If you propose to someone, you ask that person to marry you.

3.  Why do we celebrate Propose Day?

Ans:-  Propose Day 2023: ‘Propose Day’ is the second day of Valentine’s Week. It will come after the celebrations of Rose Day 2023 are over on February 7. Thus, people will celebrate Propose Day 2023 on February 8. On Propose Day, you have to express your feelings to someone and ask for their acceptance

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4.  What is National Proposal Day?

Ans:-  Get ready to get engaged this March 20

, because it’s National Proposal Day! Whether you’re planning a giant flashmob (we really hope you are) or a romantic declaration of love over dinner, March 20 is the day we celebrate proposals in all their forms. Why March 20, you ask? Well, it’s the first day of spring.

5.  Who is the founder of Propose Day?

Ans:-  John Michael O’Loughlin

 created Proposal Day.

6.  What is the history of proposing?

Ans:-  The tradition of a man (or woman) proposing on one knee comes from medieval knights bowing before noblewomen

. Upon getting down on one knee, the proposer will then ask their partner for their hand in marriage with the phrase “Will you marry me?”

7.  When did people start proposing?

Ans:-  By the 1700s, people in industrialized nations started seeing themselves as individuals, and personal happiness became a goal for many. Therefore, men and women began to marry for love. Another breakthrough came during the 1800s: Men in Europe and the U.S. began kneeling when they proposed.

8.  Why do men propose historically?

Ans:-  Today, when a man proposes to a woman, it’s because he wants to marry her, spend the rest of his life with her, love and cherish her, and be there for her in sickness and in health

. In history, however, most, if not all marriages were arranged.

9.  Why do men propose historically?

Ans:-  Today, when a man proposes to a woman, it’s because he wants to marry her, spend the rest of his life with her, love and cherish her, and be there for her in sickness and in health

. In history, however, most, if not all marriages were arranged.

10.  Who started the marriage proposal? 

Ans:- A Marriage Proposal
Written byAnton Chekhov
Date premiered1890

11.  How did people used to propose?

Ans:-  Therefore, men and women began to marry for love. Another breakthrough came during the 1800s: Men in Europe and the U.S. began kneeling when they proposed

. This gesture mimicked a tradition from the Middle Ages. That is, a knight typically knelt before the woman he was vowing to protect and serve.

12.  What should I say in Propose Day?

Ans:-  Happy Propose Day my love

.” “You are the most beautiful person I have ever met in this life and I just wish that you stay in my life and my heart forever and ever. On the occasion of Propose Day, I make a promise to you that you will always find me by your side. Happy Propose Day to you.”

13.  What is the best proposal line?

Ans:-  Proposal Quotes for Love

“I would love for you to grow old with me! 

“I love the feeling and the butterflies I get when I see you smiling. 

“You are the one I wanted to find, to tell that I need you all my life, from this day on till the rest of my life.”

“Only you, you’re the only thing I’ll see forever. 

14.  How do you propose quotes?

Ans:-  Will you take my last name on propose day? The best place for me is in your Heart I know there is no better place for me so can you be the love of my life? In you I have found the one I was looking for my heart now longs to propose you my love. This proposal Day, I want to say will you be mine?

ROSE DAY 🌹

February 7, 2024

“Boys forget the way when they love…  

Girls become rain-soaked rosebuds.”

  – Jotsna Jari.

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Valentine’s week begins from February 7

which is celebrated as Rose Day. Here are the days of build-up to Valentine’s Day–

Rose Day, Propose Day, Chocolate Day, Teddy Day, Promise Day, Kiss Day & Hug Day…   and then finally Valentine’s Day(February 14). Rose Day marks the start of Valentine Week.  Red rose is the symbol of undying Love…    only for sweetheart. This important Day is now widely celebrated with enthusiasm and purest emotions of love. Today  Rose Day celebration has become truly special part of life and culture in many countries. Flower is used to express the feelings. Rose is used to express intimate, pure and passionate types of love. So we now enjoy the amazing beauty of Rose Day. This wonderful Day has great significance for people  who wish to open their hearts to someone special to utter the magical realism of Love. 


                    Happy Rose Day 

🔺 History :

The name rose comes from Latin rosa, which was perhaps borrowed from Oscan.

[ Oscan is an extinct Indo-European language of southern Italy. ]

Roses are also revered in the West, and according to an ancient legend, were created by Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love. Romans therefore made this flower a symbol of beauty and love

, a symbol they still carry to this day.

Rose is symbol of love & friendship. Rose was a wonderful gift from Persia to entire world. Rose remained native to Persia for a long time. The yellow Persian rose was the first variety of the flower to be traded in Vienna (16th century ). Gradually Rose slowly gained popularity across Europe and the world for its color and fragrance.

The oldest remains of roses are from the Late Eocene Florissant Formation of Colorado. Roses were present in Europe by the early Oligocene.

 Today’s garden roses come from 18th-century China. Among the old Chinese garden roses, the Old Blush group is the most primitive, while newer groups are the most diverse.Garden cultivation of roses began some 5,000 years ago, probably in China

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“About 5,000 years ago, roses began to be cultivated in gardens, probably in China.” By 500 B.C., hundreds of books about the flower were being kept in the emperor’s library, according to Chinese philosopher Confucius. Imperial love for the flower grew steadily and eventually reached near-dangerous levels.

During the Roman period, roses were grown extensively in the Middle East. They were used as confetti at celebrations, for medicinal purposes, and as a source of perfume.

water colors of rose : painted by Redoute (the Raphael of Flowers).

🔺 Rose Day Celebration : 

Rose Day is celebrated by the youth who convey his deep and feelings to his loved ones by gifting a rose. 

Rose Day is an opportunity for the youngsters to forge new friendships and to convey their feelings to their friends, girlfriends, boyfriends & relatives.

Couples give each other scarlet roses, to express their passion for each other. They go out for intimate dinners, shopping and movies. Some couples like to drive to an adventurous spot or a place with a romantic setting. Many people attend Rose-Day themed functions, pubs or local clubs.

Yes. You must give a rose to your Love…

la la la la…   

Use social media using hashtag –

#roseday 

🔺 Rose Day Quotes : 

1.  ”O my Luve is like a red, red rose / That’s newly sprung in June” are one of the most romantic oft-repeated lines of a poem by Robert Burns.

2.  One rose says more than the dozen. – Wendy Craig.

3.  Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all. – W. Somerset Maugham.

4.  A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world. – Leo Buscaglia.

5.  Love and a red rose can’t be hid. – Thomas Holcroft.

6.  Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet. Katharine Lee Bates.

7.  Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet. – Katharine Lee Bates. 

8.  What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. – William Shakespeare. 

🔺 Significance of the different colors of Rose :

Red – means love and passion. Couples giving red roses express deep and passionate love for each other. A single rose just for ‘I love you’.

Yellow – creates warmth and joviality. Those gifting yellow flowers express joy and the promise of an endearing relationship.

 Pink – suggests cheerfulness, grace and gentleness. Who offering pink flowers infuse brightness, sweetness and happiness in their friendship or relationship.

 Dark pink – only for appreciation and gratitude. Those giving dark pink roses express their admiration and thank each other for their returned love.

Purple – this is love at first sight. Those who exchanging the roses…    interest in each other at first sight. A purple rose says ‘I am absorbed with you’.

🔺 Physical Description : 

Roses are erect, climbing or trailing shrubs, whose stems are usually decorated with thorns of various shapes and sizes, commonly called thorns.  Leaves are alternate and pinnately compound (ie, pinnate), usually sharply toothed with ovate leaflets.  Wild rose flowers typically have five petals, whereas cultivated rose flowers are often double (that is, with multiple sets of petals).  Rose flowers range in size from miniatures 1.25 cm (0.5 in) in diameter to hybrid flowers measuring over 17.8 cm (7.5 in).  The rose plant’s fleshy, sometimes edible, berry-like “fruit” (actually a flower cup) is called a hip and is usually red to orange in color.

🔺 Uses : 

If one symbol represents love, power, royalty, beauty, sensuality, and mysticism

–it is the Rose. Also known as “the queen of flowers.”

Rises were used in incense and aphrodisiacs, garlands and perfumes, wines and food

. They were also an important medicinal ingredient. The juice from rose petals was used as a rinse for sores in the mouth and gums. Whole flowers also were taken for stomachaches and diarrhea.

🔺 Rose Day Poem : 

Poetry : Feelings   

 Poet : Jotsna Jari

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 I paint the caress on butterfly’s lips

 When you see rose buds

 you will remember me… 

 a handful of soft lips.

 .

 I have said many things to the wind

 The bud of that word has never 

 blossomed into a flower 

 If you are alone in retirement

 then understand little by little

 .

 I have spread the golden dream

 in the paddy field 

 You can take a look 

 upside down little by little…   

 water picture of

 saying something & saying nothing. 

FAQs  :  Rose Day  2024 

1.  What date is Rose day?

Ans:-  February 7.

2.  What date is National red rose day?

Ans:-  National Red Rose Day is celebrated on June 12

, in the U.S., to pay tribute to one of the most iconic symbols of love and romance throughout history — the red rose.

3.  What are the 7 Valentine days?

Ans:-  The Valentine week list 2023 :-  

7 February 2024 – Rose Day.

8 February 2024 – Propose Day.

9 February 2024 – Chocolate Day.

10 February 2024 – Teddy Day.

11 February 2024 – Promise Day.

12 February 2024 – Hug Day.

13 February 2024 – Kiss Day.

14 February 2024 – Valentine’s Day.

4.  Why is it called Rose day?

Ans:-  World Rose Day, also known as the Day for the Welfare of Cancer patients, honours cancer patients worldwide and is celebrated in memory of Melinda Rose, a 12-year-old Canadian who passed away from the disease in 1996

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5.  Who created Rose day?

Ans:-  The Alexandra Rose Day is a charitable fund raising event held in June in the United Kingdom since 1912 by Alexandra Rose Charities

. It was first launched on the 50th anniversary of the arrival of Queen Alexandra from her native Denmark to the United Kingdom.

6.  Why is Rose day celebrated in February ?

Ans:-  Rose Day on February 7 marks the beginning of Valentine’s week. On this romantic day, roses are gifted to that special someone to celebrate love and affection

. It is believed that Victorians began the practice of exchanging roses with their loved ones to communicate unspoken feelings. 

7.  What are amazing facts about roses?

Ans:-   Top Ten Interesting Facts About Roses : 

*  Roses are one of the oldest flowers on earth.

*  Roses are edible.

*  Roses are a staple ingredient of the perfume industry.

*  Rose is the national flower of several countries.

*  Roses vary in prices.

*  Rose is popular as a name worldwide.

*  Rose has thousands of varieties.

*  Roses Are One of the Oldest Flowers. 

*  You Can Eat Roses. 

*  Their Fragrance is Used in Perfumes. 

*  Each Rose Color Has a Different Meaning. 

* The Rose is the U.S. National Flower. 

*  The Most Expensive Rose Sold for Millions of Dollars.

8.  What is the history of rose?

Ans:-  Garden cultivation of roses began some 5,000 years ago, probably in China

. During the Roman period, roses were grown extensively in the Middle East. They were used as confetti at celebrations, for medicinal purposes, and as a source of perfume.

9.  Where did roses come from originally?

Ans:-  â€śAbout 5,000 years ago, roses began to be cultivated in gardens, probably in China.” By 500 B.C., hundreds of books about the flower were being kept in the emperor’s library, according to Chinese philosopher Confucius. Imperial love for the flower grew steadily and eventually reached near-dangerous levels.

10.  What is the history of rose in India?

Ans:-  In the 16th century when the Muslim Mughal emperors came from Persia and Afghanistan to rule India, they brought camel loads of roses

. In fact the first Mughal emperor, Babar, is said to have brought the damask rose into India.

11.  What is the original name of rose?

Ans:-  Rose was originally a Norman form of a German name Hrodheid, composed of the words Hrod (“fame”) and Heid (“kind”, “type”). It was originally spelled (by the Normans) Roese or Rohese

.

12.  What is the historical use of roses?

Ans:-  They were used in incense and aphrodisiacs, garlands and perfumes, wines and food

. They were also an important medicinal ingredient. The juice from rose petals was used as a rinse for sores in the mouth and gums. Whole flowers, consumed in wine, were taken for stomachaches and diarrhea.

13.  What does rose stand for in history?

Ans:-  If one symbol represents love, power, royalty, beauty, sensuality, and mysticism

–it is the rose. Also known as “the queen of flowers,” the flower as we know it dates back to at least the oligocene epoch (about thirty-three to twenty-three million years ago).

14.  What is the cultural significance of roses?

Ans:-  Roses are also revered in the West, and according to an ancient legend, were created by Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love. Romans therefore made this flower a symbol of beauty and love

, a symbol they still carry to this day

REPUBLIC DAY [Ganatantra Diwas] January 26, 2024 â¬†ď¸Ź

How proud we feel when we see our Indian Flag “Tiranga” flying high with the air at the top !!

Republic Day is celebrated in India on 26th January with wonderful parades at Janpath, New Delhi. This Day always commemorates the spirit of independent and individual India. It was on this in 1930 when the Indian National Congress proclaimed Purna Swaraj, the declaration of India’s independence from colonial rule. This Day also commemorates Indian citizens’ power to choose their Government democratically. Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar is the father of the Indian Constitution. He formed a committee of seven members calling it the Drafting Committee on August 29, 1947. He was the chairman of this committee. The committee drafted the constitution and submitted it to the Constituent Assembly. The Assembly met in numerous sessions for nearly two years before finally adopting the Constitution. Though India became a free nation on August 15, 1947, it declared itself a Sovereign, Democratic and Republic State with the adoption of the Constitution on January 26, 1950. So this January 26 has a special significance in the history of India.

History :

India celebrated its 74th National Republic Day on the 26th of January, 2023. The constitution of India was adopted on the 26th of November, 1949 with Dr. B. R. Ambedkar as the Chairman of the Drafting Committee. This date is celebrated as the Constitution Day of India. Since, the constitution came into effect on the 26th January, 1950, to commemorate this event, India celebrates the Republic Day every year as a national holiday. India got its own constitution and became a free country breaking all the ties with the British reign.

On this day, a special program is held at the Rajpath, New Delhi, India. It is commenced at the Rajpath and ceases at the India Gate. The program is gracefully attended by the Honourable President, Vice President, Prime Minister, Ministers of all the states, dignitaries of the government, guests and dignitaries of foreign countries, selected children from schools, etc.

Every state represents its glimpse via exhibition on the Rajpath. The event is graced by the cultural functions, parades from the armed forces – the Indian Air Force (IAF), the Indian Naval Forces (INF) and the Indian army.

On this day, the honorary civilian honours – the Padma awards are presented to the citizens for their contribution to India in various fields ranging from arts, education, social welfare, music, politics, science, technology, etc. The valour awards of India which are the Ashok Chakra, Paramvir Chakra and Vir Chakra are presented to the brave soldiers for their brave acts in the battlefields.

India achieved independence on 15 th August 1947, it took nearly 3 years to draft the constitution and 26 th January 1950 was chosen as the official enactment date as a nod to the “Purna Swaraj” declaration made during 1930. The country officially came to be known as Republic of India — a “sovereign socialist secular democratic republic” that “secures all its citizens justice, liberty, equality, and fraternity,” according to its preamble.

The republic day celebration came to an end on 29th January with one of the best Beating Retreat ceremony ever witnessed. Auto-rickshaw drivers, Construction workers, Safai karamcharis and Frontline health workers were invited to watch the ceremony.

We witness various cultural events; folk events being celebrated in all the part of India and world wide too. We honour our martyrs who have sacrificed their lives for the country, we felicitate the soldiers with prestigious awards and rewards, medals. It’s followed by a 21-gun salute, national flag hoisting, and national anthem.

The founding fathers of our nation, the late Mahatma Gandhi, Subhas Chandra Bose, Jawaharlal Nehru, Arabinda Ghosh, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, were able to fight against the British.

On 26 January 1950, the Constitution of India 1950 came into effect and India transformed from a British dominion into an independent constitutional republic – a day we annually celebrate as Republic Day.

We can also learn a lot from the 21st century that India has ushered in. A new India has emerged as a leader in the global marketplace, with a dynamic economy and a vast and growing middle class. With the introduction of a new-generation of technology and several groundbreaking initiatives, India has been able to advance its economic growth in all sectors of the economy. The country is now firmly on the path to becoming the next economic super power. We are also one of the fastest growing major economies in the world, and are expected to have the world’s third largest economy by 2030.

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Courtesy : http://www.inspirationblog.co.in

🔹

All Time Great War Report : Pulitzer Prize

Review by Jotsna Jari

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Ernest Taylor Pyle (August 3, 1900 – April 18, 1945) was a Pulitzer Prize –winning American journalist and war correspondent who is best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers during world war।।. American journalist Ernie Pyle witnessed the fighting at Anzio firsthand. From the end of 1940 to early 1945 his writing assignments took him to England, Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, and tiny islands in the Pacific. Pyle went wherever the action was—accompanying soldiers in combat around the globe—and then composed vivid, penetrating accounts of the tragedy of war as it was being fought. His columns brought the war home to Americans.

Ernest Taylor Pyle

🤎 Pyle’s Death :-
Pyle was traveling by jeep with Lieutenant Colonel Joseph B. Coolidge.
when the vehicle came under fire from a Japanese machine gun. The men immediately took cover in a nearby ditch. “A little later Pyle and I raised up to look around,” Coolidge reported. “Another burst hit the road over our heads … I looked at Ernie and saw he had been hit.” A machine-gun bullet had entered Pyle’s left temple just under his helmet, killing him instantly.

đź’ś Pyle wrote the column about Waskow a few days after his death, in Caserta, where he had become depressed and was drinking heavily.

Pyle shares a cigarette with
soldiers on Okinawa

💙 The Death of Captain Waskow 🔼
AT THE FRONT LINES IN ITALY, January 10, 1944 – In this war I have known a lot of officers who were loved and respected by the soldiers under them. But never have I crossed the trail of any man as beloved as Capt. Henry T. Waskow of Belton, Texas.

Capt. Waskow was a company commander in the 36th Division. He had led his company since long before it left the States. He was very young, only in his middle twenties, but he carried in him a sincerity and gentleness that made people want to be guided by him.

“After my own father, he came next,” a sergeant told me.

“He always looked after us,” a soldier said. “He’d go to bat for us every time.”

“I’ve never knowed him to do anything unfair,” another one said.

I was at the foot of the mule trail the night they brought Capt. Waskow’s body down. The moon was nearly full at the time, and you could see far up the trail, and even part way across the valley below. Soldiers made shadows in the moonlight as they walked.

Dead men had been coming down the mountain all evening, lashed onto the backs of mules. They came lying belly-down across the wooden pack-saddles, their heads hanging down on the left side of the mule, their stiffened legs sticking out awkwardly from the other side, bobbing up and down as the mule walked.

The Italian mule-skinners were afraid to walk beside dead men, so Americans had to lead the mules down that night. Even the Americans were reluctant to unlash and lift off the bodies at the bottom, so an officer had to do it himself, and ask others to help.

The first one came early in the morning. They slid him down from the mule and stood him on his feet for a moment, while they got a new grip. In the half light he might have been merely a sick man standing there, leaning on the others. Then they laid him on the ground in the shadow of the low stone wall alongside the road.

I don’t know who that first one was. You feel small in the presence of dead men, and ashamed at being alive, and you don’t ask silly questions.

We left him there beside the road, that first one, and we all went back into the cowshed and sat on water cans or lay on the straw, waiting for the next batch of mules.

Somebody said the dead soldier had been dead for four days, and then nobody said anything more about it. We talked soldier talk for an hour or more. The dead man lay all alone outside in the shadow of the low stone wall.

Then a soldier came into the cowshed and said there were some more bodies outside. We went out into the road. Four mules stood there, in the moonlight, in the road where the trail came down off the mountain. The soldiers who led them stood there waiting. “This one is Captain Waskow,” one of them said quietly.

Two men unlashed his body from the mule and lifted it off and laid it in the shadow beside the low stone wall. Other men took the other bodies off. Finally there were five lying end to end in a long row, alongside the road. You don’t cover up dead men in the combat zone. They just lie there in the shadows until somebody else comes after them.

The unburdened mules moved off to their olive orchard. The men in the road seemed reluctant to leave. They stood around, and gradually one by one I could sense them moving close to Capt. Waskow’s body. Not so much to look, I think, as to say something in finality to him, and to themselves. I stood close by and I could hear.

One soldier came and looked down, and he said out loud, “God damn it.” That’s all he said, and then he walked away. Another one came. He said, “God damn it to hell anyway.” He looked down for a few last moments, and then he turned and left.

Another man came; I think he was an officer. It was hard to tell officers from men in the half light, for all were bearded and grimy dirty. The man looked down into the dead captain’s face, and then he spoke directly to him, as though he were alive. He said: “I’m sorry, old man.”

Then a soldier came and stood beside the officer, and bent over, and he too spoke to his dead captain, not in a whisper but awfully tenderly, and he said:
“I sure am sorry, sir.”

Then the first man squatted down, and he reached down and took the dead hand, and he sat there for a full five minutes, holding the dead hand in his own and looking intently into the dead face, and he never uttered a sound all the time he sat there.

And finally he put the hand down, and then reached up and gently straightened the points of the captain’s shirt collar, and then he sort of rearranged the tattered edges of his uniform around the wound. And then he got up and walked away down the road in the moonlight, all alone.

After that the rest of us went back into the cowshed, leaving the five dead men lying in a line, end to end, in the shadow of the low stone wall. We lay down on the straw in the cowshed, and pretty soon we were all asleep.

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Captain Henry T. Wasko
(24 Sept 1918 – 14 Dec 1943)

In his last will and testament, Captain Waskow wrote:
“God alone knows how I worked and slaved to make myself a worthy leader of these magnificent men, and I feel assured that my work has paid dividends—in personal satisfaction, if nothing else…. I felt so unworthy, at times, of the great trust my country had put in me, that I simply had to keep plugging to satisfy my own self that I was worthy of that trust. I have not, at the time of writing this, done that, and I suppose I never will.”

🔺 What is a war zone reporter called –
A war correspondent is a journalist who covers stories first-hand from a war zone.

đź”» Who was the famous war journalist in World war || –
Ernest Taylor Pyle , American journalist who was one of the most famous war correspondents of World War ||.

🔹 Photography :

  1. Ernest Taylor Pyle
  2. Pyle shares a cigarette with
    soldiers on Okinawa
  3. Captain Henry T. Wasko

CHRISTMAS DAY.DECEMBER 25, 2023⬆️

You must love the Lord  your God

with all your heart, all your soul

and all your mind.

– Jesus Christ 

❤️

Christians celebrate Christmas Day on December 25, as the anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ, a spiritual leader whose teachings from the basis of their religion. According to Christian religion, Jesus is the Son of God. The Christmas is a joining of Christ and Mass, which means the holy mass(super, celebration, festival) of Christ(Jesus). The pre-Christian Germanic peoples- including the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse- celebrated a winter festival called Yule, held in the late December to early January period, yielding modern English yule, today used as a synonym for Christmas. The traditional Christmas narrative recounted in the New Testament, known as the Nativity o Jesus, says that Jesus was born in Bethlehem. There are different opinions regarding the date of Jesus’ birth and in the early fourth century, the church fixed the date as December 25. 

Happy Christmas Day

🔺 History  : 

The first recorded Christmas celebration was in Rome on December 25, AD 336.

In the 3rd century, the date of the nativity was the subject of great interest.

Nativity of Christ, medieval illustration from the Hortus deliciarum of Herrad of Landsberg (12th century)

A passage in Commentary on the Prophet Daniel (204) by Hippolytus of Rome identifies December 25 as the date of the nativity. This passage is generally considered a late interpolation. But the manuscript includes another passage, one that is more likely to be authentic, that gives the passion as March 25.,

                                  Saint Hippolytus assisted by two Angels and the Virgin Mary.

A very early Christian tradition said that the day when Mary was told that she would have a very special baby, Jesus (called the Annunciation) was on March 25th – and it’s still celebrated today on the 25th March. Nine months after the 25th March is the 25th December!

 March 25th was also the day some early Christians thought the world had been made, and also the day that Jesus died on when he was an adult and they thought that Jesus was conceived and had died on the same day of the year. The date was chosen as it was near the March/Vernal Equinox (when the date and night are of equal length in March).

 Jesus died on Nisan 14 in the Jewish calendar – the date of the Jewish festival of Passover. The Jewish calendar is lunar (based on the moon, rather than fixed dates) and so it moves around with dates on the Gregorian calendar. Saint Ephrem the Syrian (306 – 373) taught that Jesus was conceived on Nisan 10! So March 25th became a ‘fixed’ date on the Gregorian calendar to mark these ‘moveable’ dates on the Jewish calendar.

The Nativity, from a 14th-century Missal; a liturgical book containing texts and music necessary for the celebration of Mass throughout the year

St Augustine of Canterbury was the person who probably started the widespread celebration of Christmas in large parts of Englan by introducing Christianity to the regions run by the Anglo-Saxons in the 6th century (other Celtic parts of Britain were already Christian but there aren’t many documents about if or how they celebrated the birth of Jesus). St Augustine of Canterbury was sent by Pope Gregory the Great in Rome and that church used the Roman Calendar, so western countries celebrate Christmas on the 25th December. Then people from Britain and Western Europe took Christmas on the 25th December all over the world!

Adam C. English, Professor of Religion at Campbell University, writes :- 

‘We have evidence from the second century, less than fifty years after the close of the New Testament, that Christians were remembering and celebrating the birth of the Lord. It is not true to say that the observance of the nativity was imposed on Christians hundreds of years later by imperial decree or by a magisterial church ruling. The observance sprang up organically from the authentic devotion of ordinary believers.”

So whenever you celebrate Christmas, remember that you’re celebrating a real event that happened about 2000 years ago, that God sent his Son into the world as a Christmas present for everyone!

🔺 The Three Christmas Masses : 

There are three Masses celebrated on Christmas Day: one at midnight, one at dawn, and one during the day.

Each Mass is distinct and highlights a different aspect of the Christmas story.

MIDNIGHT MASS: THE ANGELS’ MASS 

 According to tradition, Jesus was born in Bethlehem at midnight. 

The Church celebrates the first Christmas Mass at midnight to honor the very hour that our Savior came into the world to save us. The darkness of midnight also parallels humanity’s condition of spiritual darkness as the world awaited the radiant birth of the promised Messiah.

The Responsorial Psalm for this Mass proclaims the joyful tidings of the Angel: “Today is born our Savior, Christ the Lord.”

The Gospel reading for this Mass tells the first part of the Christmas story from the Gospel of Luke, when Baby Jesus is born and the Angels herald the Good News to the shepherds tending their flocks. That’s why the Midnight Mass is traditionally referred to as “The Angel’s Mass.”

MASS AT DAWN : THE SHEPHERD’S MASST

The second Christmas Mass is celebrated at dawn. 

Sacred Scripture draws a parallel between Christ and the sun. As the sun begins to rise over the darkness of the land, it calls to mind how Jesus, the Light of the World, dispelled the darkness of sin and death at His birth.

The Responsorial Psalm highlights this theme: “A light will shine on us this day: the Lord is born for us.” 

The Gospel reading for this Mass continues the Christmas story from the Gospel of Luke. 

After the Angel announces the Good News to the shepherds, the shepherds hasten to Joseph and Mary to worship the Christ Child. The shepherds then joyfully proclaim the Good News to others. Therefore Christmas Mass at Dawn is traditionally referred to as “The Shepherd’s Mass.”

MASS ON CHRISTMAS DAY  :  

THE KING’S MASS

The final Christmas Mass is celebrated in the fullness of daylight, signifying that the promised Son of God has now been revealed to the whole world.

The Responsorial Psalm for this Mass declares this by saying: “All the ends of the earth have seen the saving power of God.” 

The Gospel reading is a call for all people and nations to worship the newborn King of Kings. Therefore this Mass is traditionally referred to as “The King’s Mass.”

🔺 Santa Claus  : 

A long time ago, Santa was known as Saint Nicholas

 by his peers because he was so kind to others and often gave gifts to those in need. Today, some still call Santa “Saint Nicholas” among his many nicknames.

Santa Claus is said to live at the North Pole with his wife, where he spends the year making toys with the help of his elves. There he receives letters from children asking for Christmas gifts. On Christmas Eve he loads his sleigh with toys and flies around the world, drawn by eight reindeer, stopping at each child’s house; he slides down the chimney and leaves the gifts, refreshing himself with the milk and cookies left for him by the household’s children.

🔺Know Please  : 

*The actual date of birth of Jesus Christ is lost from history  There is no mention of December 25 in the Bible  

* The oldest and most complete Bible (4th century) is a parchment-book preserved in Vatican City.  

*The first illustrated Christmas tree appeared in the London-News…. 1848 | 

*The idea of ​​Santa Claus comes from Saint Nicholas.  

* The first Christmas was celebrated in Rome… December 25, 336 AD  

*Saint Augustine of Canterbury started celebrating Christmas in England.  

*Priest Thomas the Apostle introduced Christianity to India… 525 CE (CE ÂĄ) |

* The earliest possible depiction of Jesus Christ.  City- Awoy Auropes, Syria.

đź’› First Published Bible  : 

   The illustrated page of Bible (known as

   Gutenberg Bible or 42- line Bible – 

   first published ), Gutenberg Museum. 

“Give me twenty-six soldiers of lead and

 I will conquer the world. “- J. Gutenberg

 First Printed Bible (February 23, 1455): –

 The Immortal Creation of a Poor Printer-

 Yes … he invented the printing press.

 His name is Johannes Gutenberg.

 His printing is just a revolution.

 This printing has played an important 

 role in the development of Renaissance,   Reformation, Enlightenment and 

 Scientific Revolution.

 –Historical events–

 âś“ 23.02.1455 – Gutenberg first Bible

 Print.  About 180 copies were printed,   mostly on paper and some on Velum.

 This first printed edition of the Bible 

 has been praised for its high aesthetic   and technical quality.

 * Rare Opinions During Bible Publishing-

 “Everything that has been written to me   about that wonderful man I met in   Frankfurt is true. I have not seen 

 the whole Bible ….

 The script was very neat and clear,

 It was not difficult to follow.

 By your grace … easily without glasses

 I can read. “

 (To Cardinal Carvajal … Future Pope 

 Pills-II wrote the above letter, 1455 ;

 # here that wonderful man is Gutenberg.

 # Then printing of Bible is not 

  completed yet, but the Bible is 

  in printing process .)

 âś“ 09.08.1978-

 Gutenberg’s Bible, his printing press’s

 production…  the First book ( single one   complete edition out of 21 published   Bibles) Sold at auction for 2.4 million

 dollars  (London).

                 portrait of Johannes Gutenberg

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🌹Duccio di Buoninsegna :-

( c. 1255–1260 â€“ c. 1318–1319)

He was an Italian painter active in Siena,Tuscany,in the late 13th and early 14th century. He was hired throughout his life to complete many important works in government and religious buildings around Italy. Duccio is considered one of the greatest Italian painters of the Middle Ages and is credited with creating the painting styles of Trecento and the Sienese school. He also contributed significantly to the Sienese Gothic style.

                               The Virgin & Child 

                       with saints Dominic & Aurea 

He became famous in his own lifetime. In the 14th century Duccio became one of the most favored and radical painters in Siena.

His greatest work was the double-sided altarpiece, the ‘MaestĂ ’, made between 1308-11. 

The Gallery’s “The Annunciation”, “Jesus opens the Eyes of a Man born blind” & “The Transfiguration”  are fragments from it. 

     Jesus opens the eyes of a Man born blind

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        The Last Supper (detail), Siena Duomo   
                       Altarpiece, 1308, Duccio

The works of Duccio are all the more astounding in that they are not painted in oils. Imagine mixing dry pigment with what you may have had leftover on your plate from morning breakfast–egg yolk. I’ve never tried it, but from what I’ve read, the stuff may have been about the nastiest, most confounding, most cantankerous concoction ever conceived by the creative consciousness of man. Mixed with a little water, the paint dried almost the instant it was applied in thin, transparent glazes allowing for little or no blending and quite unforgiving of even the most minor errors. Any painter who could have handled that has to be admired, if for no other attribute than sheer patience.

🔺 Christmas –  Poem  : 

I am newly renaissance in Love

I will find a whole world

Now in the land of love,

the feeling of want long ago

escaped by screaming.

Bakul Jui Chameli Kanakchampa

just in my love yard

Yes, in your opinion

these are very few

But all this is the world

for a poor person like me…  

The day  I give love

to the whole world

The lack of poverty in everyone’s house

will be erased.

For a while  we walk

with this happiness

in the land of love.

Let all that is not found

be fulfilled in love & tune

little by little 

đź’™ Poetry :  Love 25th

      Poet :  jotsna jari 

FAQs  :  Christmas, December 25, 2023 

1.  Does going to Mass on Christmas Eve count for Christmas day? 

*    Christmas is a holy day of obligation regardless of the day of the week it falls. As a result, Catholics are obligated to attend Mass for Christmas, either at a Christmas Eve vigil Mass or Christmas Day Mass

, and on Sunday, Dec. 26, the feast of the Holy Family, which will be celebrated solely on Sunday this year.

2.  Does Mass on Christmas Eve count for Christmas? 

*    Here’s the rundown: Christmas is a Holy Day of Obligation, and the faithful are required to attend Mass either Christmas Eve, Friday Dec.24, or Christmas Day, Saturday, Dec.25.

3.  Does Christmas Eve Mass count for Sunday Mass? 

*    Yes, there are two Mass obligations, the Sunday obligation and the Christmas obligation

. A person cannot fulfill both obligations with one Mass. In order to fulfill a Mass obligation, we must attend either on the day of the feast or on the evening preceding (Code of Canon Law 1248). 

4. Why do people go to Mass on Christmas Eve? 

*   While there is nothing in the Bible to dictate that Christians need to go to mass on Christmas Eve, the tradition is believed to have started to honour Jesus’ birth

. It is believed the tradition started in the Western World from about 430AD under Pope Sixtus III in the Basilica of St Mary Major.

5.  Do you have to go to Mass on Dec 26?

*    Catholics have an obligation to attend Mass on both Christmas Day, Saturday, Dec.25, and on the following day, Sunday, Dec.26.

6.  What is midnight mass?

*    Midnight mass is a tradition that sees Christians gather for a service on Christmas Eve.

While there is nothing in the Bible to dictate that Christians need to go to mass on Christmas Eve, the tradition is believed to have started to honour Jesus’ birth.

7.  What do you call the Mass on Christmas Eve?

*    In many Western Christian traditions Midnight Mass is the first liturgy of Christmastide that is celebrated on the night of Christmas Eve, traditionally beginning at midnight when Christmas Eve gives way to Christmas Day.

8.  What do you call the mass on December 24?

*   Simbang Gabi (Tagalog for “Night Mass”), also called Misa de Aguinaldo (“gift mass”), is the Filipino version of the Misa de Gallo. It traditionally begins on December 16 and ends on December 24.

9.  What is a vigil Mass Christmas Eve?

*    In the first ages, during the night before every feast, a vigil was kept. In the evening the faithful assembled in the place or church where the feast was to be celebrated and prepared themselves by prayers, readings from Holy Writ (now the Offices of Vespers and Matins), and sometimes also by hearing a sermon. 

10.  Do people go to Mass on Christmas Eve? 

Christmas is a Holy Day of Obligation, and the faithful are required to attend Mass either Christmas Eve, Friday Dec.24, or Christmas Day, Saturday, Dec.

11.  Do Catholics Do Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve?

*     For Catholics, the big Christmas Eve Midnight Mass is traditionally celebrated at the Vatican

. People in large number visit St Peter’s Basilica to hear the Pope’s Christmas message.

12.  What do Catholics do on Christmas Eve?

       Christmas Eve/Day Catholics, as well as some Protestant denominations, celebrate mass at midnight

. The ceremony, held in churches throughout the world, celebrates the birth of Christ, widely believed to have occurred at night.

13.  What is the Mass called on Christmas Eve?

        In many Western Christian traditions Midnight Mass

 is the first liturgy of Christmastide that is celebrated on the night of Christmas Eve, traditionally beginning at midnight when Christmas Eve gives way to Christmas Day.

14.  Why Christmas is celebrated ?

*     Christians celebrate Christmas Day on December 25, as the anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ, a popular spiritual leader whose teachings from the basis of their religion.

15.  What is Christmas in simple words?

*      According to Christian religion, Jesus is the Son of God. The Christmas is a joining of Christ and Mass,  which means the holy mass(super, celebration, festival) of Christ(Jesus).

16.  What was Christmas originally called?

*      The pre-Chistian Germanic Peoples including the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse- celebrated a winter festival called Yule, held in the late December to early January period, yielding modern English yule, today used as a synonym for Christmas.

17.  When was Jesus actually born ?

*      The date of birth of Jesus is not stated in the gospels or in any historical sources but most biblical scholars assume a year of birth between 6 and 4 BC.

18.  Was Jesus born on the 25th of December ?

*      Christmas is on December 25. The Bible didn’t mention that December 25 is

day of Jesus’s birthday. The earliest Christians did not celebrate his birthday.

19.  Why 25th December is celebrated as Christmas? 

*      Christmas is celebrated to remember the birth of Jesus Christ

, who Christians believe is the Son of God. The name ‘Christmas’ comes from the Mass of Christ (or Jesus). A Mass service (which is sometimes called Communion or Eucharist) is where Christians remember that Jesus died and then came back to life. 

20.  Why is Christmas on the 25th and not the 21st?

*      Because it was not placed after the Winter Solstice but back dated from January 6th, the Feast of the Three Kings to make 12 days of Christmas celebration

. Oddly enough it was dated backward from a feast day not forward from the Solstice. The Romans held December 25th to be the birthdate of their gods. 

21.   What is the history of December 25th? 

*       The first official mention of December 25 as a holiday honoring Jesus’ birthday appears in an early Roman calendar from AD 336

. The celebration of Christmas spread throughout the Western world over the next several centuries, but many Christians continued to view Epiphany and Easter as more important.

22.  What was Santa Claus real name?

*      A long time ago, Santa was known as Saint Nicholas

 by his peers because he was so kind to others and often gave gifts to those in need. Today, some still call Santa “Saint Nicholas” among his many nicknames.

23.  How old was Santa before death?

*      According to the blog Email Santa, Santa Claus is 1,751 years old

 as of 2022. In fact, the origins of Santa Claus can be traced all the way back to a monk named Saint Nicholas, who was born between 260 and 280 A.D. in a village called Patara, which is part of modern-day Turkey.

24.  What God is Santa Claus?

*      Santa Claus may owe his earliest influence to Odin (also known as Wodan)

, a god revered by Germanic peoples in Northern Europe as early as 2 B.C.E. Odin was celebrated during Yule, a pagan holiday that took place midwinter. During this time, Odin was said to lead the Wild Hunt, a ghostly procession through the sky.

25.  Where does Santa Claus live?

*      Santa Claus is said to live at the North Pole

 with his wife, where he spends the year making toys with the help of his elves. There he receives letters from children asking for Christmas gifts.

26.  What is the real address of Santa Claus?

*     The official U.S. Postal Service address for Santa Claus is 123 Elf Road, North Pole, 88888

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27.  Does Santa live in Finland or Alaska?

*      Located in the Arctic Circle, the Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi is known as “Santa’s official North Pole residence” and is one of the most popular travel destinations in Finland

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28.  What is the name of Christmas tree?

       Araucaria columnaris

 – Christmas Tree. The Cook pine, called Christmas Tree in India, is a tree native to the Cook Island, north-east of Australia in the South Pacific. The bark of the Cook pine peels off in thin paper like sheets.

29.  What is the meaning of Xmas tree?

*      An evergreen tree or an imitation of one, decorated as part of Christmas celebrations

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30.  What is a Christmas tree in oil and gas? 

*      A Christmas tree is a piece of equipment that provides flow control on a oil or gas well

. Christmas trees are a vertical assembly of valves with gauges and chokes that allow for adjustments in flow control as well as injections to stimulate production.

31.  What month do you put up the Christmas tree?

*    Tradition dictates that Christmas trees should be put up at the beginning of Advent

, which begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas. This year, Advent begins on Sunday 27th November 2022.

đź’™ writer :  jotsna jari