Happy Wednesday! Hope everyone's settling back into routine after Spring/Easter break! Today will round off April's series of Explained with the most recognised holiday: Christmas! Also, why not check out the rest of the series?
When?
Every year Christmas is celebrated on December 25th, with Christmas Eve on December 24th and Boxing Day on December 26th.
What?
Christmas is definitely the most well-known Christian holiday, both in the sense of the number of people having heard of it and celebrating it, and of how many people who know what it represents religiously. Christmas is a time for Christians to celebrate the birth of Jesus, as told in the 'nativity' story. (You can find this in Matthew chapters 1-2 and Luke chapters 1-2.) Christians celebrate on this day with presents and cards and Christmas trees like many non-Christians, and traditionally with carol singing and midnight mass, which is a service with communion at midnight between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
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