This Is A Christmas Tree

These are Christmas Trees

(Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, Canada)

This is a Christmas Tree

(Capitol, Washington, DC, US-of-A )

This is a Christmas Tree

(Clock tower, Parliament, Westminster, London, UK)

This is a Christmas Tree

(Peace tower, Dutch Parliament, The Hague, Netherlands)

This is a Christmas Tree

This is a Christmas Tree

This is a Christmas Tree

This is a Christmas Tree

This is a Christmas Tree

(Rotunda, Parliament Building, Ottawa, Canada)

And these are Christmas Trees also

Say it . . .
Christmas,

Christmas,

CHRISTmas.

                    These are NOT Holiday Trees
            They are Not Hanukkah bushes
    They are Not Festive Season Trees
They are Not Allah plants
They are Christmas trees.

We are happy for your joy, and respect your traditions, and festivities,
and want to share in them with you . . .
and just so we want others to appreciate, and share in, ours, too.
We want our special day with its traditions included;
and returned to its former value, presence and status.
    We want Christmas . . . back,
            . . . . without shame.

Yes CHRISTmas - not “Holiday” - (pssst . . . Christmas is not a dirty word).
We are not celebrating the birth of a Holiday.
We are
    Celebrating the Birth of
            Jesus.
            . . . . that simple.   Enough already . . .
            . . . . no more exclusion – that’s over . . .

It is our tradition and custom to say “Merry Christmas”,

so I would like to say to each and every one of you,
  Have a Very Merry Christmas,
and may God bless each and every one of you!

                                           This is our heritage;
                                   it’s time we took a stand to reclaim it.
                           Please join me and pass this on.
                                              -Fr. Klaas Tuinman M.A.

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