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Christmastide, also known as Christide, is a season of the liturgical year in most Christian churches. For the Catholic Church , Lutheran Church , Anglican Church , Methodist Church and some Orthodox Churches, Christmastide begins on 24 December at sunset or Vespers , which is liturgically the beginning of Christmas Day .
The Twelve Days of Christmas, also known as the Twelve Days of Christmastide, are the festive Christian season celebrating the Nativity.. Christmas Day is the First Day. The Twelve Days are 25 December to 5 January, counting first and last.
The exchange of gifts is central to the Christmas and holiday season, and the season thus also incorporates a "holiday shopping season". This comprises a peak time for the retail sector at the start of the holiday season (the "Christmas shopping season") and a period of sales at the end of the season, the "January sales".
Little Christmas (Irish: Nollaig na mBan, lit. 'Women's Christmas'), also known as Old Christmas, Green Christmas, or Twelfth Night, [1] is one of the traditional names among Irish Christians and the Amish for 6 January, which is also known more widely as the Feast of the Epiphany, celebrated after the conclusion of the twelve days of Christmastide.
Until the suppression of the Octave of the Epiphany in the 1960 reforms, January 13 was the Octave day of the Epiphany, providing the date for the end of the season. Traditionally, the end of Christmastide was February 2, or the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, also known as Candlemas. This feast recounts the 40 days of rest Mary took ...
When does daylight saving time end in 2024? Daylight saving time will end for the year on Sunday, Nov. 3, when we "fall back" and gain an extra hour of sleep. Next year, it will begin again on ...
The end to daylight saving time for 2024 means clocks in most parts of the U.S. "fall back" one hour in the early morning of Sunday, Nov, 3. Here's what to know about daylight saving time, and why ...
Christmastide, the part of the Christian liturgical year that runs from Christmas Day until either the feast of the Epiphany or the feast of the Baptism of the Lord; Epiphanytide, the part of the liturgical year in certain denominations that runs from the feast of the Epiphany to Candlemas, which marks the end of the Christmas season