A Commonplace Book

Category: Christmas...

  • reciting "'Twas The Night Before Christmas" from memory
  • decorated department-store windows
  • homemade or child-made tree ornaments
  • Christmas cards created from a woodcut or your own design
  • a white Christmas
  • the spirit (non-commercial) of Christmas all year long
  • providing a Christmas meal for a needy family
  • Christmas ("mass on Christ's day") coming from yule
  • the advent calendar with 24 openings to be opened each day beginning December 1, created by a 19th-century Munich housewife who was tired of being asked endlessly when Christmas would come
  • "Here We Come A-Wassailing" and "Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly"
  • Christmas as a strking illustration of how societal customs influence liturgical practices

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