It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

"For how many years shall this festival abide! Never shall age destroy so holy a day! While the hills of Latium remain and father Tiber, while thy Rome stands and the Capitol thou hast restored to the world, it shall continue."

I would say so, judging from the spreading of its modern incarnation, Christmas, even within my own lifetime. Did Christianity co-opt Saturnalia, or did Saturnalia co-opt Christianity? Sometimes it's really hard to tell. :)

Be of good cheer--it's the most wonderful time of the year! 

Meditations, Book III, Section 6

Meditations, Book III, Section 6:

To be cheerful, and to stand in no need, either of other men's help or attendance, or of that rest and tranquillity, which thou must be beholding to others for. Rather like one that is straight of himself, or hath ever been straight, than one that hath been rectified.