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Incorporating Christmas Day and New Year's Day, the various celebrations during this time create a peak season for the retail sector (Christmas/holiday "shopping season") extending to the end of the period ("January sales"). Christmas window displays and Christmas tree lighting ceremonies are customary traditions in various locales.
Customs of the Christmas season include carol singing, gift giving, attending Nativity plays, church services, [8] and eating special food, such as Christmas cake. [9] Traditional examples of Christmas greetings include the Western Christian phrase "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!"
As early as Christmas Day in 1621, Governor William Bradford "encounterd a group of people who were taking the day off from work, and he promptly sent them back to work." [24] Nissenbaum further notes that "[what] bothered the governor was that these Christmas-keepers were, in his own words, out 'gaming [and] reveling in the streets." [25] [26]
This year, Christmas will fall in the middle of the week, Wednesday, Dec. 25. Christmas eve will be celebrated on a Tuesday night. What day does New Year's eve fall on in 2024?
This year, Christmas Day is Monday, Dec. 25, 2023. So the day of the week Christmas falls on this year is Monday. ... So, the holiday lands on the tail end of the weekend. On the upside, it means ...
Christmas 2022 will be Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022. The holiday celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ and is associated with gift giving and decorating trees.
The Christmas season ends on the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, a feast typically celebrated on the Sunday after Epiphany. Although Epiphany is not a distinct season, the Ordinary Form does have specific Mass collects that are used from Epiphany onward. [ 2 ]
Christmas cards are illustrated messages of greeting exchanged between friends and family members during the weeks preceding Christmas Day. The traditional greeting reads "wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year", much like that of the first commercial Christmas card, produced by Sir Henry Cole in London in 1843. [165]