Top Five Reasons why we should celebrate Christmas on 15th December this year:
Counting down
5. Just as noone knows either the day or the hour of the Lord's Second Coming, so noone knows the day or the hour or the weight of the baby of the First Coming. A change of date from time to time would remind us of these uncertainties.
4. "Behold!", the church is not bound by tradition.
3. We spend all Advent preaching sermons about "being ready" and "expect the unexpected" about the coming of Christ so it would be a very good test of preparedness for the unexpected if we announced today, 7th December that Christmas was only eight days away.
2. No one (except clergy and choirs) really does any useful work between 15th and 25th December. So why not get on with Christmas ten days early?
1. Berries are essential to the joy of Christmas and here in the blessed Down Under, raspberries have incredibly started ripening in November. #thanksglobalwarming. I am very concerned that in my raspberry patch we may have reached peak raspberry on 6th December and there will be no berries left by 25th December. To be safe on the berry front, I commend bringing Christmas forward ten days.
But who does one write to about this? Is there a committee which sets the date of Christmas?
3 comments:
The idea has some appeal. Those of a shopping mind could look forward to the biggest Boxing Day sales ever. Always open to polishing off any extra raspberries...
Berry Christmas, Peter and Jean!
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BW
Let's move Christmas to mid winter! Then finally the decorations, lights etc would actually make sense.
And because Jesus is our light in a dark world and all that...
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