The Sacred Meaning of Christ's mass

Here I am on Christmas eve, and surprisingly un-stressed. It is kinda sad that I have to say that, like Christmas is something to be stressed about, but it is true that is what it has basically become: Something that we start to dread in November and something to pain through in December and something that you are relieved is finished, but you know you will have to go through again in January. I am serious, this is what it seems like Christmas has become, that and a huge religious argument over whether you should even say "Merry Christmas", or put up a nativity scene in your own home. You pick up any newspaper or magazine and see the tragedy of what we have turned Christmas into. It reflects the consuming and greedy condition of our country. I just watched a recent episode of "Everybody loves Raymond" and I was disgusted to find that the whole basis of the plot for that episode was filled with the American delusion of happiness, that somehow stuff is what will bring you happiness. Materialism, materialism, and more materialism. Now I am not saying that it is a bad thing to buy presents and give them to others as a way of showing your love, it is just that the act of giving has been misconstrued into something so very much against what Jesus even came to earth on Christmas to teach us. I also just watched the movie Miracle on 34th Street, which is a movie about Santa Claus coming to New York City and trying to help a hardened child believe that there actually is a Santa Claus, and that he himself was that man. Santa is portrayed as a wonderful old man whose mission is to make children around the world "happy", and doing that by giving them what they want, when they want it. I was so boggled by the end of the movie because of the fact that they were creating a new meaning to Christmas, taking the whole reason for Christmas, and why it even became a holiday: Christ's birth, and replacing it with something superficial and stupid. They did not even mention ANYTHING religious once, and this movie was made in the thirties, when I thought that at least some Americans still had their heads on straight. This day is one of the most important days in the history of the world, the day that God's own Son came to earth and was born a human, so that we might have ETERNAL LIFE forever. And yet we all seem to forget this, as we are buried in the mountains of wrapping paper and toys, the mountains that we build for ourselves because of our unwillingness to look beyond it, to the life that Jesus came to give us. Because of what Christmas has become and what it's true meaning is prosecuted for, now in the 21st century, we as the people who have chosen the redemption of the little child Jesus, must not only as our duty but our joy, defend the sacred meaning of Christ's mass, of the coming into the world of our Lord and Saviour.
I wish you all a very Merry Christmas!
Julia