{"id":3644,"date":"2020-01-07T01:27:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T01:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=3644"},"modified":"2021-01-07T18:32:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T18:32:03","slug":"christmas-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/christmas-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20190916ff\/MarianGarden20101226-160-b.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" align=\"right\">This blog still has &#8220;Christmas 2019&#8221; and a photo of a snow-covered Marian garden in the sidebar.<\/p>\n<p>Some Americans take their Christmas decorations down promptly after December 25.<\/p>\n<p>Others do so directly after Epiphany.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m an American, and I&#8217;ve still got that &#8220;Christmas 2019&#8221; photo up? An explanation may be in order. Or maybe not. I&#8217;ll explain, anyway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/christmas-octaves-and-history\/#advent\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20181127ff\/20181203-600px-Liturgical_year-328.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" align=\"right\"><\/a>I figure we&#8217;re still in Christmastide, which could have ended with Epiphany.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/christmas-continues\/#1\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>But didn&#8217;t, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>My region&#8217;s Christmas 2019 &#8211; 2020 calendar shows the Christmas season running until next Sunday, when we celebrate our Lord&#8217;s baptism. Again, sort of.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve talked about that before, and plan to do so again:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/12-days-of-christmas-plus-1\/\">12 Days of Christmas, Plus 1<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(January 4, 2020)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/christmas-octaves-and-history\/\">Christmas, Octaves and History<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(December 31, 2019)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/christmas-still-celebrating\/\">Christmas: Still Celebrating<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(December 24, 2019)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/epiphany-still-shining\/\">Epiphany: Still Shining<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(January 6, 2019)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/epiphany-sunday\/\">Epiphany Sunday<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(January 8, 2017)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p><sup><a name=\"1\"><\/a>1<\/sup> Celebrations and seasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wikipedia\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baptism_of_the_Lord\">Baptism of the Lord<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Candlemas\">Candlemas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christmastide\">Christmastide<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Epiphany_(holiday)\">Epiphany (holiday)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twelve_Days_of_Christmas\">Twelve Days of Christmas<\/a>\/Twelvetide<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>USCCB (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops)\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/prayer-and-worship\/liturgical-year\/christmas\/index.cfm\">Christmas 2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/prayer-and-worship\/liturgical-year\/christmas\/upload\/usccb-christmas-2019-calendar-bilingual.pdf\">Christmas Calendar December 2019 &#8211; January 2020<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/prayer-and-worship\/liturgical-year\/index.cfm\">Liturgical Year<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog still has &#8220;Christmas 2019&#8221; and a photo of a snow-covered Marian garden in the sidebar. Some Americans take their Christmas decorations down promptly after December 25. Others do so directly after Epiphany. I&#8217;m an American, and I&#8217;ve still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/christmas-continues\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,154],"tags":[109,112,90,69],"class_list":["post-3644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-being-catholic","category-discursive-detours","tag-christmas","tag-epiphany","tag-holidays","tag-jesus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Dwtw-WM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3644"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4384,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions\/4384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}