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if you’re going to google don’t try and hide it, it makes you look daft
Do it majorlyThe Twelve Days of Christmas, also known as Twelvetide, is a festive Christian season celebrating the Nativity of Jesus Christ. In most Western ecclesiastical traditions, “Christmas Day” is considered the “First Day of Christmas” and the Twelve Days are 25 December – 5 January, inclusive. For many Christian denominations; for example, the Anglican Communion and Lutheran Church, the Twelve Days are identical to Christmastide, but for others, e.g., the Roman Catholic Church, “Christmastide” lasts longer than the Twelve Days of Christmas.
Because the Armenian Apostolic Church and Armenian Catholic Church celebrate the Birth and Baptism of Christ on the same day, they do not have a series of twelve days between a feast of Christmas and a feast of Epiphany.
The Oriental Orthodox, other than the Armenians, the Eastern Orthodox, and the Eastern Catholics who follow the same traditions do have the interval of twelve days between the two feasts. If they use the Julian Calendar, they celebrate Christmas on what is for them 25 December, but is 7 January of the Gregorian Calendar, and they celebrate Epiphany on what is for them 6 January, but is 19 January of the Gregorian Calendar.
For the Eastern Orthodox, both Christmas and Epiphany are among the Twelve Great Feasts that are only second to Easter in importance.
The period between Christmas and Epiphany is fast-free.During this period one celebration leads into another. The Nativity of Christ is a three-day celebration: the formal title of the first day is “The Nativity According to the Flesh of our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ”, and celebrates not only the Nativity of Jesus, but also the Adoration of the Shepherds of Bethlehem
Hi Gems, yep Christmas day was traditionally the 1st day of Christmas and ends the night of the 5th of Jan which was known as ‘Twelfth night’ , so really the tree should go up Christmas Day !! Imagine that with all the other palaver going on and trying to get your ostrich in the oven !! !
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You don’t need children to enjoy Xmas and have some decorations up
Unless you have kids , why bother ?
You do if you have outgrown pagan nonsense realising it’s pointless and a brainwashed tradition of society carried on purely for commercialism instead of “religion”
Lol Norfolk, I’m gonna buy you a long nightshirt and a night cap, you already have the grumpy face lol
I admit it…… Although I’m in no way religious and a non-believer …. I like it, I like buying gifts, I like the purrrrty lights and things and mostly I love that you get to spend time laughing with Family and friends …. sorry
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hate it when people leave the outside lights up, just not switched on, all year round
I hate it when people use terms like ‘snowflake’ in the wrong context, it seems to be bandied about now in an effort to look cool ….. just sayin….
Christmas tree’s before December is chavvy
I do dec’s about 2 weeks ish before the day, depending on having a couple of days off together to do it, and its all down as soon after New Year as poss….. however fairy lights aren’t just for Christmas , no sirree bob, They are lovely All Year !
