Catholics keep Christmas as a season, with customs at every stage: the wreath and the novenas while they wait, Mass in the night, and feast days that carry the celebration into January. The waiting is Advent, from 29 November 2026; the season itself runs from the evening of 24 December to the Baptism of the Lord on 10 January 2027. So many of those customs are ways of making room. Luke says Mary “laid him in a manger; because there…

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