Advent & Christmas 

 

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Throughout Advent and Christmas, we encourage everyone to make a gift to the annual Christmas Bowl Appeal.

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Christmas

 

The common name for this festival of Birth of our Lord Jesus Christ is derived from the older name, Christ Mass (just as Halloween is derived from All Hallows Eve). In the Western Churches the celebration extends for 12 days, as the old Christmas Carol, The Twelve Days of Christmas, reminds us. (Sadly, that song also reminds us that religious prejudice and fear of people whose religious practices are different from our own is not a new thing.) In the Eastern Churches, Christmas is celebrated on several different dates, with January 6 (our Twelfth Day, the Feast of the Epiphany) as the most common date. The liturgical colour for this special season is white or gold.

 

 

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