Silly Finns
Apparently celebrate Xmas today :D. Supposedly there is some historical precedent for this ;) but to me it seems to be rather silly. Why all the build up if you're gonna spoil it all by doing everything a day early? :D
To beat you to it, you silly twat! And the Germans do it too, so there!
So do the Norwegians. Never could figure out what was wrong with them.
Yeah well I celebrate Xmas in November so I win!!!!
*has another spoon of penguin souflee*
I celebrated this Christmas LAST YEAR!
At least we are consistent in the Nordic countries.
I know that sometimes the Brits celebrate the second day of Christmas on the third day.
I never celebrate Christmas so I win!
*raps the penguin smartly on the beak*
We celebrate Christmas on the 24th too. So ner.
Thus proven: It's the English and their colonial offspring that do it wrong!
Silly, silly, silly!
The Feast of the Nativity (ask any tame liturgist) begins with Vespers on 24 December. Vespers is sung at the canonical hour of 1500, local, or later. This is in accordance with Biblical traditional where the day begins at sunset not sunrise.
It is therefore perfectly legitimate to celebrate the feast any time from Vespers on 24 December until the end of the season, the 'twelve days' so, for example, this Friday is not a fast day as normal because the continuing feast takes precedence: it is a feastday and I can have bacon for breakfast if I want. SO THERE.
p.s. there is no such thing as a tame liturgist: what is the difference between a liturgist and a terrorist? You can (in time) negotiate with terrorists - though not, apparently, if you are the UN in Afghanistan.
Erm, everybody got that?!?
Good, good,
you can fill me in later.
I didn't :(
But did I hear that we can celebrate any time over the festive period? Good good. Pass the bottle!
