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Neapolitan presepio at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. The practice of putting up special decorations at Christmas has a long history. In the 15th century, it was recorded that in London, it was the custom at Christmas for every house and all the parish churches to be "decked with holm, ivy, bays, and whatsoever the season of the year afforded to be green". [4]
The Church of England retained twenty-seven holy days. [2] As a result of disputes between Puritans and high churchmen over the Book of Common Prayer , which the Puritans refused to adopt because they believed it violated their liberty of conscience , they refused to celebrate any holidays besides the Lord's Day. [ 3 ]
Among the Lutheran and Reformed traditions of Christianity, the Bible itself is the only final authority (see sola scriptura), but tradition still plays an important supporting role. [6] All three groups generally accept the traditional developments on the doctrine of the Trinity , for instance, and set bounds of orthodoxy and heresy based on ...
All Saints Day is a Christian holiday that typically falls on Nov. 1. People celebrate with Mass, prayer and sometimes dress up as saints.
This year, as the holiday season approached, I wondered how other parents were feeling about creating new traditions with their families. I realized that, for better or worse, with or without ...
Heckman: I hope you will dream up your own traditions and personal rituals to add depth and new traditions to your holiday season.
By the late 20th century, the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah and the new African American cultural holiday of Kwanzaa began to be considered in the U.S. as being part of the "holiday season", a term that as of 2013 had become equally or more prevalent than "Christmas season" in U.S. sources to refer to the end-of-the-year festive period.
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