Did you know that celebrating birthdays, which in ancient Greece and Rome you did for a "god" or "emperor" (who wanted to be worshiped as a god) was considered a PAGAN practice by early Christians?
Did you know that in some middle eastern cultures they still don't celebrate birthdays?
Now do you understand why Jesus birthday celebration wasn't something the people living in Rome who knew Christ cared to do. Mary was alive and the most likely source of Luke's gospel which has the whole infancy narrative of Jesus. If he interviewed her, the woman who give birth to the man (even if you think he was an ordinary man) do you think Mary carried a calendar around?
In the Liturgical calendar, it is the complete story of Christ every single year in perpetuity. It’s all important.
Protestants’ most Holy day is Christmas.
The Orthodox/Catholic most Holy day is Pascha. (Easter.)
The more I researched and read early Christian writings, the more I realized how Scofielded American Protestantism was.