{"id":10,"date":"2002-12-01T09:06:08","date_gmt":"2002-12-01T14:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=10"},"modified":"2002-12-01T09:06:08","modified_gmt":"2002-12-01T14:06:08","slug":"it-is-not-christmas-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"It is *NOT* Christmas yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, Bonnie asked me if I was looking forward to singing Christmas carols at church today. My response: Advent starts tomorrow, not Christmas, so we’ll be singing Advent hymns. It also brought up a very sore subject with a lot of clergy which is… [drumroll] the fact that our society starts Christmas the day after Thanksgiving. Hate to break it to y’all but… Christmas doesn’t start until December 25th (or if you do Christmas Eve worship, December 24th). We are now in the season of Advent, which is the liturgical time of preparation before Christmas. Therefore, we do NOT start singing Christmas music until the festival of Christmas starts. This festival, by the way, lasts 12 days until January 6th. This means that there are 12 days of celebrations in the church, not just one. Twelve days when it is liturgically appropriate to sing Christmas music. These 12 days do not start until December 24\/25, so please do not ask me how the Christmas music at church is. I will likely end up with steam coming out of my ears. \ud83d\ude42 Getting me started on the pseudo-Christmas music that is piped into most retail establishments will also not serve to endear you to me.<\/p>\n

Dave Barry has some words<\/a> on Christmas music as well. WARNING: You will laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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