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Sunday before Christmas: December 20 . Christmas Sunday; Honesty Day ; Winter Solstice: December 21 . Blue Christmas (holiday) The Sunday between Christmas Day and New Year's Day (both exclusive), or December 30 if both Christmas Day and the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God are Sundays: December 27. Feast of the Holy Family (Roman Catholicism)
The Irish Tenors with A Family Christmas at Memorial Hall in Plymouth. FRIDAY, Dec. 6: Vienna Boys Choir come to Memorial Hall in Plymouth The Vienna Boys Choir with their beloved holiday show at ...
Christmas Eve (24 December) – Day before Christmas. Traditions usually include big feasts at night to celebrate the day to come. It is the night when Santa Claus delivers presents to all the good children of the world. Christmas Day (25 December) – Christian holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus.
A moveable feast is an observance in a Christian liturgical calendar which occurs on different dates in different years. [1] It is the complement of a fixed feast , an annual celebration that is held on the same calendar date every year, such as Christmas .
The variation extends even to the issue of how to count the days. If Christmas Day is the first of the twelve days, then Twelfth Night would be on January 5, the eve of Epiphany. If December 26, the day after Christmas, is the first day, then Twelfth Night falls on January 6, the evening of Epiphany itself. [17]
So skip the grocery stores open on Christmas and instead check out the many restaurants open on Christmas so you can indulge in a hearty holiday meal come December 25 without even stepping foot in ...
Blue Christmas is observed during the end of Advent, before Christmas Day. Blue Christmas (also called the Longest Night) in the Western Christian tradition is a day in the Advent season marking the longest night of the year. [1] [2] On this day, some churches in Western Christian denominations hold a church service that honours people that ...
The five evangelical feasts or feast days are Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, Ascension, and Pentecost.Most Continental Reformed churches continued to celebrate these feast days while largely discarding the rest of the liturgical calendar and emphasizing weekly celebration of the Lord's Day. [1]