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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.
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 ...
In medieval and Tudor England, Candlemas traditionally marked the end of the Christmas season, [26] [27] although later, Twelfth Night came to signal the end of Christmastide, with a new but related season of Epiphanytide running until Candlemas. [28]
Iceland. The traditional 12 days of Christmas begin on Christmas Day and end on the Epiphany, but in Iceland there are 13 extra days of Christmas, and they lead up to Christmas Eve.
It is not clear as to whether or not the Feast of the Baptism of our Lord [7] is the end of Christmastide for the Episcopal Church. On one hand, the Prayer Book refers to the "Twelve Days of Christmas," [ 8 ] and clearly distinguishes the Christmas and Epiphany seasons, the latter extending until Ash Wednesday. [ 9 ]
Christmas Eve is not a designated federal holiday. Still, U.S. presidents, including Joe Biden and Donald Trump, have used the holiday to grant a day off to the country's more than 2 million ...
If you're looking forward to cozy, dark, cold winter evenings, here's when Daylight Saving Time ends in 2024. When do clocks fall back? Daylight Saving Time ends at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 3, in 2024.