"Holiday" Vs. "Christmas" In Headline On Fp Devotional

[Nathair/|\]

Hope everyone has a great Hogmanay tonight.

[followerofemmanuel]

Hope everyone has a great Hogmanay tonight.

Hope you had a great Hogmanay Night! I had to Google what it meant. What did we ever do before Google searches??

[Nathair/|\]

January 1

• Christian Feast Day:
  
  • Basil the Great (Eastern Orthodox Church)
    
  • Feast of the Circumcision of Christ (Eastern Orthodox Church)
    
  • Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus (Lutheran Church)
    
  • Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, the Octave Day of Christmas, considered a holy day of obligation in some countries. (Roman Catholic Church)
    
  • Fulgentius of Ruspe
    
  • Telemachus
    
  • World Day of Peace (Roman Catholic Church)
    
  • January 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
    

  [*]Constitution Day (Italy)

  [*]Dissolution of Czechoslovakia related observances:

  • Day of the Establishment of the Slovak Republic (Slovakia)
    
  • Restoration Day of the Independent Czech State (Czech Republic)
    

  [*]Earliest day on which Handsel Monday can fall, while January 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of the year. (Scotland)

  [*]Founding Day (Republic of China)

  [*]Global Family Day (International)

  [*]Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Brunei from United Kingdom in 1984.

  [*]Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Haiti from France in 1804.

  [*]Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Sudan from United Kingdom in 1956.

  [*]National Tree Planting Day (Tanzania)

  [*]New Year's Day (many countries around the world using the Gregorian calendar)

  [*]Public Domain Day

  [*]The eighth day of Christmas (Western Christianity)

  [*]First-Foot (Scottish and Northern English Folklaw)

  [*]The last day of Kwanzaa (United States)

  [*]The presidents of Brazil and Switzerland take possession.

  [*]Triumph of the Revolution (Cuba)

[Nathair/|\]

January 2

• Ancestry Day (Haiti)
  
• Berchtold’s Day (Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the Alsace)
  
• Carnival Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis)
  
• Christian Feast Day:
  
  • Basil the Great (Roman Catholic and Church of England)
    
  • Defendens of Thebes
    
  • Gregory of Nazianzus (Roman Catholic Church)
    
  • Macarius of Alexandria
    
  • Seraphim of Sarov (repose)
    
  • January 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
    

• The first day of Blacks and Whites' Carnival, celebrated until January 7. (southern Colombia)
  
• The first day of the Carnival of Riosucio, celebrated until January 8 every 2 years. (Riosucio)
  
• The ninth day of Christmas (Western Christianity)
  
• The second day of New Year (A holiday in Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Mauritius, Montenegro, New Zealand, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine):
  
  • Bank Holiday, if it is a Sunday, the day moves to January 3 (Scotland)
    
  • Kaapse Klopse (Cape Town)
    

  [*]Victory of Armed Forces Day (Cuba)

[Nathair/|\]

January 2

• Ancestry Day (Haiti)
  
• Berchtold’s Day (Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the Alsace)
  
• Carnival Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis)
  
• Christian Feast Day:
  
  • Basil the Great (Roman Catholic and Church of England)
    
  • Defendens of Thebes
    
  • Gregory of Nazianzus (Roman Catholic Church)
    
  • Macarius of Alexandria
    
  • Seraphim of Sarov (repose)
    
  • January 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
    

• The first day of Blacks and Whites' Carnival, celebrated until January 7. (southern Colombia)
  
• The first day of the Carnival of Riosucio, celebrated until January 8 every 2 years. (Riosucio)
  
• The ninth day of Christmas (Western Christianity)
  
• The second day of New Year (A holiday in Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Mauritius, Montenegro, New Zealand, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine):
  
  • Bank Holiday, if it is a Sunday, the day moves to January 3 (Scotland)
    
  • Kaapse Klopse (Cape Town)
    

  [*]Victory of Armed Forces Day (Cuba)

[Nathair/|\]

January 3

• Christian Feast Day:
  
  • Genevieve
    
  • January 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
    

• Tamaseseri Festival (Hakozaki Shrine, Fukuoka)
  
• The tenth day of Christmas (Western Christianity)
  
• First day of school at schools in Malaysia and Singapore
  

[Nathair/|\]

Today is also J.R.R. Tolkien's Birthday.

[Nathair/|\]

January 4

• Chōna-hajimeshiki (手斧初式) at Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū. (Kamakura, Japan)
  
• Christian Feast Day:
  
  • Elizabeth Ann Seton
    
  • January 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
    

  [*]Day of the Fallen against the Colonial Repression (Angola)

  [*]Day of the Martyrs (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

  [*]Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Burma from the United Kingdom in 1948.

  [*]Ogoni Day (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People)

  [*]The eleventh day of Christmas. (Western Christianity)

[Nathair/|\]

January 5

• Christian Feast Day:
  
  • John Neumann (Catholic Church)
    
  • Pope Telesphorus
    
  • Simeon Stylites (Latin Church)
    
  • January 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
    

  [*]Joma Shinji (除魔神事) at Tsurugaoka Hachiman. (Kamakura, Japan)

  [*]The Twelfth day of Christmas and the Twelfth Night of Christmas. (Western Christianity)

[Nathair/|\]

• The Twelfth day of Christmas and the Twelfth Night of Christmas. (Western Christianity)
  

And that, I believe, officially ends the Christmas holiday season. Do y'all want me to keep going, or should we end here?

[Scott Lloyd]

And that, I believe, officially ends the Christmas holiday season. Do y'all want me to keep going, or should we end here?

You're not going mention Epiphany, then? (Jan. 6)

[Nathair/|\]

You're not going mention Epiphany, then? (Jan. 6)

Forgot about that one. I'm not entirely up on Catholic festivals.