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How beautifully our carols combine the remnants of this still pagan time and the majestic light of Christ's faith on our purely folk, national soil! Carols are, of course, a purely folk work, both in terms of content and singing, but along with the development of folk life, various influences were exerted on the content of carols, and most of all, of course, from the side of spiritual science. During the development of our Ukrainian fraternities and fraternal schools, the bursakas of these schools and their teachers, who at that time made a living by singing cantos and carols on holidays, contributed a lot of school science to carols...

And after that, the Christmas meal began. At the same time, it was necessarily taken into account that the souls of deceased ancestors can come to the house on this day. So many utensils were placed on the table, but it was not possible to use sharp objects, taking into account those people who died this year, or, for example, as the war is now, taking into account those who are currently on the road, somewhere far away. Later, this tradition began to change. Each new religion tries to either destroy the previous one, or level it, or conquer it. We are seeing a transformation. Instead of the Sun, we have the Star of Bethlehem. Accordingly, carolers already go with Zora, not with Sonechka. Instead of pre-Christian carols, we have Christian carols. The Saints appear, the same kutya and twelve dishes appear, symbolizing initially the number of months, and later the number of Saints.

Митрополит Василий Липкивский так характеризовал колядки в рождественской проповеди "Значение колядок": Как хорошо в наших колядках сочетаются и останки этого еще языческого времени и величественный свет веры Христовой на нашей чисто народной, национальной почве! Колядки, это, безусловно, чисто народное произведение, и по содержанию, и по пению, но вместе с развитием народной жизни на содержание колядок оказывались разные влияния, и больше всего, безусловно, со стороны духовной науки. Во времена развития наших украинских братств и братских школ, бурсаки этих школ и их учителя, которые в ту пору добывали себе жизнь пением кантов и колядок по праздникам, внесли много школьной науки в колядки…