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Greetings Season 2016
9 years ago
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There are some people in some places who get their panties in a twist over other people wishing them Happy Holidays. In their narrow, little Protestant worlds, it's all about Jesus's birthday, (which probably actually happened some time in April, if he was a real person at all), and they bitterly -- oh, so very bitterly -- resent the lack of a "MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! GOD BLESS!!!!!" on every pair of lips. If you run into one of those people, give them a copy of this list. (If you are one of those people, read carefully.)
This Is A List Of Every Holy Day And Related Secular Occasion Between Advent Sunday And Twelfth Night.
November 27th - Advent Sunday, Christ the King
November 30th - St Andrew's Day (Christian)
December 6th - St Nicholas Day
December 8th - Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary (Christian), Bodhi Day/Rohatsu (Buddhist)
December 10th - Human Rights Day
December 11th - Milad un Nabi (Islam, at sunset, Prophet's birfday)
December 12th - Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Catholic)
December 14th - Monkey Day
December 15th - Zamenhof Day
December 16th - Posadas Navidenas (Hispanic Christian, to the 25th), Beethoven's Birfday (1770)
December 21st - Winter Solstice, First Day of Winter, Yule (Pagan & Christian), Yalda (Zoroastrian)
December 23rd - Humanlight (Secular Humanist), Festivus (rest of us), Christmas Adam (because Adam came before Eve)
December 24th - Hanukkah begins (at sunset, to January 1st), Christmas Eve
December 25th - Christmas Day (Christian & secular), Feast of the Nativity (Orthodox Christian), Newtonmas (Secular Humanist)
December 26th - Boxing Day (nobody really knows), St Stephen's Day (Catholic), Zarathosht No-Diso (Zoroastrian), Beginning of Kwanzaa (to January 1st), Wren Day (Irish Catholic), National Whiners Day
December 28th - Holy Innocents (Christian)
December 30th - Holy Family (Catholic)
December 31st - New Year's Eve, Watch Night
January 1st 2017 - New Year's Day, Mary Mother of God (Catholic), Feast of St Basil (Orthodox Christian), Holy Name of Jesus (Orthodox Christian), Gantan-sai (Shinto New Year's Day), (end of Hanukkah), beginning of Hot Tea Month
January 2nd (Monday) - Observation of New Year's Day (where it's a statutory holiday), Day After New Year's Day
January 5th - Twelfth Night (twelfth day after Christmas, Pentecost eve), Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti (Sikh)
TOTAL OCCASIONS: 45 (forty five) (non-Christian: 27)
...and that's why we call it The Holidays.
UPDATE -- forgot to de-chi the Xtians, fixed -- also decided "every" should be underlined -- "Zarathosht Diso" should have been "No-Diso," sorry -- "Gur" should have been Guru, sorry -- and decided a count of non-Christian holy days and occasions would a good idea, too 19DEC2016
This Is A List Of Every Holy Day And Related Secular Occasion Between Advent Sunday And Twelfth Night.
November 27th - Advent Sunday, Christ the King
November 30th - St Andrew's Day (Christian)
December 6th - St Nicholas Day
December 8th - Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary (Christian), Bodhi Day/Rohatsu (Buddhist)
December 10th - Human Rights Day
December 11th - Milad un Nabi (Islam, at sunset, Prophet's birfday)
December 12th - Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Catholic)
December 14th - Monkey Day
December 15th - Zamenhof Day
December 16th - Posadas Navidenas (Hispanic Christian, to the 25th), Beethoven's Birfday (1770)
December 21st - Winter Solstice, First Day of Winter, Yule (Pagan & Christian), Yalda (Zoroastrian)
December 23rd - Humanlight (Secular Humanist), Festivus (rest of us), Christmas Adam (because Adam came before Eve)
December 24th - Hanukkah begins (at sunset, to January 1st), Christmas Eve
December 25th - Christmas Day (Christian & secular), Feast of the Nativity (Orthodox Christian), Newtonmas (Secular Humanist)
December 26th - Boxing Day (nobody really knows), St Stephen's Day (Catholic), Zarathosht No-Diso (Zoroastrian), Beginning of Kwanzaa (to January 1st), Wren Day (Irish Catholic), National Whiners Day
December 28th - Holy Innocents (Christian)
December 30th - Holy Family (Catholic)
December 31st - New Year's Eve, Watch Night
January 1st 2017 - New Year's Day, Mary Mother of God (Catholic), Feast of St Basil (Orthodox Christian), Holy Name of Jesus (Orthodox Christian), Gantan-sai (Shinto New Year's Day), (end of Hanukkah), beginning of Hot Tea Month
January 2nd (Monday) - Observation of New Year's Day (where it's a statutory holiday), Day After New Year's Day
January 5th - Twelfth Night (twelfth day after Christmas, Pentecost eve), Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti (Sikh)
TOTAL OCCASIONS: 45 (forty five) (non-Christian: 27)
...and that's why we call it The Holidays.
UPDATE -- forgot to de-chi the Xtians, fixed -- also decided "every" should be underlined -- "Zarathosht Diso" should have been "No-Diso," sorry -- "Gur" should have been Guru, sorry -- and decided a count of non-Christian holy days and occasions would a good idea, too 19DEC2016
Related is the old practice of signing an X in place of one's name. Recently, we've tended to think of it as proof of someone's illiteracy, but for centuries, it was proof of someone's piety (since most people were illiterate anyway) because it's a chi, not an X.