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What Is Christmastide? Christmas for 12 Days or Until Candlemas

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  • Christmastide means Christmas time: “tide” is an old English word for a time or season, and the season is the weeks the Church keeps after Christ’s birth.
  • In the Catholic calendar Christmas Time runs from evening prayer on Christmas Eve to the Baptism of the Lord, which in 2027 falls on Sunday 10 January.
  • For Lutherans of the Missouri Synod, the Church of England and the Protestant churches in Germany, Christmas in the narrow sense ends with the Epiphany, on Wednesday 6 January 2027.
  • By old custom the wider season runs to Candlemas on 2 February; the Church of England allows a full forty days, and in Germany the Protestant Epiphany season ends with the week of 2 February.
  • On the Orthodox calendar the Nativity leads straight into Theophany; the Russian tradition calls the days between Svyatki, the holy days, and on the Julian calendar they run from 7 to 19 January 2027 by the civil calendar.
  • Luke gives the years between the manger and the river only a few verses, ending: “And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man” (Luke 2:52).

Christmastide is the Christmas season, the weeks the Church keeps after Christ’s birth. In the Catholic calendar it runs from Christmas Eve to the Baptism of the Lord, on Sunday 10 January 2027. Other churches end it with the Epiphany on 6 January, or keep it for forty days, to Candlemas on 2 February. The birth of Christ is too great a joy for one day, so the Church gives it a season. The rules of the Roman calendar, approved…

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  • The Holy Bible, King James Version: Luke 2:28–30, Luke 2:52; Luke 3:23 cited. بوابة الكتاب المقدس
  • Congregation for Divine Worship, Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the Calendar (approved by Paul VI, 14 February 1969), nos. 7, 32–38 and 43–44, English text of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales. الثقافة الكاثوليكية
  • United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Liturgical Calendar for the Dioceses of the United States of America, 2026 and 2027. 2026, 2027
  • Catechism of the Catholic Church, nos. 528–529. vatican.va
  • The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, LCMS Calendar, “Epiphany”, 6 January 2027. calendar.lcms.org
  • Church of England, Common Worship: Times and Seasons, introductions to Christmas and to the Epiphany season, and the Eucharist of the Presentation (Candlemas). لعيد الميلاد, الظهور الإلهي
  • Church of England, Common Worship, Rules to Order the Christian Year and the Calendar. Rules, التقويم
  • St Elisabeth Convent, Minsk, “What Is the Meaning of Twelvetide, and How Should Be Celebrate It?”, 9 January 2021. catalog.obitel-minsk.com
  • Orthodox Church in America, Feasts and Saints for 25 and 31 December 2025 and 1, 2, 5, 6 and 14 January 2026 (the Nativity, its leave-taking, the Circumcision, the forefeast and eve of Theophany, Theophany and its leave-taking), and Fr Lawrence Farley, “A Papal Calendar?”, 3 January 2017. oca.org, 31 December, 2 January, 6 January, Farley
  • Urs Christian Mundt (epd), “Bis wann ist eigentlich Weihnachtszeit?”, evangelisch.de, 27 December 2025. evangelisch.de
  • Dictionary.com, “Christmastide” and “tide”. Christmastide, tide

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