JK Decorations

[annemehr]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67"
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> 
> Sarah wrote:
> > 
> > > but why does she still have all her Christmas decorations up?  Its
> > incredibly bad luck after twelfth night...
> > 
> Annemehr responded:
> > They've been down for a few days.  You're just seeing a cached version
> > of the page.
> 
> Carol adds:
> Yes. She took them down on Epiphany (January 6) like a good
> Anglican--only she's Church of Scotland (Presbyterian), so I'm
> confused. Or do Presbyterians celebrate the same Church seasons as
> Anglicans, Episcopalians, and Catholics? (I notice, though, that she
> left her Advent calendar up after Advent.)
> 
> Carol, with apologies for her ignorance on this topic and hoping that
> someone will help her out

Annemehr again:
I think Epiphany's Epiphany, and the end of the Christmas season, to
everyone who pays attention to that.  It is for Catholics, anyway,
except in my experience most *don't* pay that much attention.  They
tend to put their decorations up very shortly after Thanksgiving (last
Thurs. in Nov. in the US), and then clear them all away as early as
Dec. 26.  Either that, or leave them up nearly to Valentine's Day.

The more Evangelical or independent churches may be different; some of
them don't do Christmas at all (though I think there are very few of
those).

Just been to (Catholic) church today, and now that you mention it,
they still had *all* the decorations up!  Somebody's asleep at the
switch...

Annemehr