Christmas Continues until Epiphany

[Lamb]

Do you continue celebrating Christmas until Epiphany?

 

[Albion]

Do you continue celebrating Christmas until Epiphany?

Not really. While I recognize the significance of Epiphany, I don't continue celebrating Christmas until then (just like most Americans).

I tend to think of Christmas as a big event because it commemorates God becoming Man and beginning the Earthly process of redeeming mankind. Epiphany is about something that's important and related to Christ's birth, but not exactly the same thing.

I do, however, keep the Christmas tree up until Epiphany, which is the proper usage; and I feel a bit sad when I see all the trees that other people have thrown out the day after Christmas for the garbage collectors to haul away.

 

[Josiah]

Yes.

 

[Lanman87]

We are keeping our Christmas tree up until Jan 6th. We have removed our advent wreath from the dining room table and removed the few outside decorations we had up.

I actually wish our society would return to the "12 Days of Christmas" celebration. I think putting the tree up on Christmas Eve and having a 12 day celebration/feast would be much better than the entire month of December being "Christmas". It seems like everyone is in a hurry to decorate the day after Thanksgiving and in a hurry to take everything down after Christmas day.

I think a shorter celebration would be less tiring and more meaningful. But alas, the mighty dollar rules and we need people spending money on cookies, gifts, decorations and parties for as long as possible.

 

[Josiah]

We keep our tree and outside decorations up until January 6.

Now where we CHEAT is that we put up the tree early in Advent... and even sing Christmas carols during Advent. Our church doesn't (it does Advent during Advent, Christmas during Christmas) but we... well.... cheat.


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