The Christmas Season

The Christmas Season

We wait and prepare throughout Advent as we wait for the coming of Christ and celebrate Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with special church services and parties with family and friends. 

Most of the people around us think that’s the end of the Christmas season. But it’s really the beginning. 

Advent is the season that leads up to Christmas and the Christmas season follows. Epiphany means to reveal. When Christians celebrate Epiphany we recognize Jesus Christ, the Son of God, has been revealed to us.

Epiphany is traditionally January 6; 12 days after Christmas. On the Sunday after Christmas we remember the coming of the three kings and the gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. 

The next Sunday we celebrate Jesus’ baptism and his entry into active ministry in the world. We take time to remember our own baptisms into the Christian church and reflect on what it means to have the promise of our sins being washed away as we repent. 

The 12 days after Christmas are intended to be days of rejoicing in Christ, in contrast with the waiting and preparing season of Advent. The days following Christmas are the true Christmas Season.