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	Christmas Eve,Christmas Holiday Eve,Christmas Celebration Eve,Christmas for Everyone,Christmas Eve ...
		Christmas Eve ushers in the Christmas celebrations in a graceful and elegant manner.
		Then the families return home and celebrate the Christmas Eve night with a grand supper.
		To add good cheer to the merry-making of Christmas Eve, traditional Christmas drinks are also arranged.
	christmascarnivals.com /christmas-eve (259 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Christmas
		Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church.
		Gervase of Tilbury (thirteen century) says that in England grain is exposed on Christmas night to gain fertility from the dew which falls in response to "Rorate Cæli"; the tradition that trees and flowers blossomed on this night is first quoted from an Arab geographer of the tenth century, and extended to England.
		Nicholas and his "reformed" equivalent, Father Christmas -- be ascribed to the stepping of a saint into the shoes of Woden, who, with his wife Berchta, descended on the nights between 25 December and 6 January, on a white horse to bless earth and men.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03724b.htm (4665 words)

	Christmas Eve - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Christmas Eve, on December 24, is the day before the celebrated birthday of Jesus Christ.
		In Italy presents are opened on the morning of Christmas Eve, while in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Argentina, Poland, Portugal and Quebec, Kazakhstan Christmas presents are opened on that evening, and in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, English Canada, South Africa, and Australia mostly on the morning of Christmas Day.
		In the Philippines, the predominantly Roman Catholic Christian country in Asia, Christmas Eve is usually celebrated by attending the "Rooster's Mass or Misa del Gallo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christmas_Eve (1129 words)

	Christmas Eve
		The celebration of Christmas Eve is part of the late autumn and winter holiday cycle which includes the commemoration of the dead and the celebration of the winter soltice and the New Year.
		Christmas Eve customs center round the celebration of the birth of Infant Jesus, and intertwine with the symbolism of Last Supper, the clan- destine social meals of the primitive Christians, agapae, Adam and Eve (December 24 is the name day of Adam and Eve).
		In many districts of Lithuania the Christmas Eve table is not cleared for the night, for people believe that the souls of their ancestors and other dead members of their family come home for supper on this night.
	thelithuanians.com /bookthelithuanians/node17.html (959 words)

	Christmas Eve - Kucios: Lithuanian Customs and Traditions
		On Christmas Eve the house must be thoroughly cleaned, all the bed linens changed and all family members must bathe and don clean clothes before the evening meal.
		The country people believed that Christmas Eve night was miraculous: various omens and rituals could not only be used to predict the future but all of nature felt the significance of the night.
		On Christmas Eve night bells were attached to the horses' harnesses: sometimes one or two or an entire string of bells.
	www.javlb.org /educat/tradicijos/kucios.html (0 words)

	Christmas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Christmas was considered less significant, and the early church opposed the celebration of birthdays of church members.
		Christmas was promoted in the east as part of the revival of Catholicism following the death of the pro-Arian Emperor Valens at the Battle of Adrianople in 378.
		Christmas was especially controversial in 4th century Constantinople, being the "fortress of Arianism," as Edward Gibbon described it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christmas (0 words)

	Polish Christmas Eve
		Christmas is the time when most people try to go to church, even those who never go to church during the year (in Greece it may be normal not to go to church even if you're sort of religious, but in Poland you should go every week and most religious people do).
		Christmas mass might probably be best compared to the Resurrection mass in the Orthodox Easter (but no chatting and leaving the church before the Mass finishes), particularly to the part when Greeks sing the beautiful Hymn "Christos Anesti" ('Christ is risen'), for we sing a lot.
		Some of Christmas Eve dishes, particularly sauerkraut and mushrooms, are quite difficult to digest, so the dishes served at the end of Christmas Eve meal are suppposed to help the organism to deal with this problem.
	www.geocities.com /beataoz/Wigilia.html (2028 words)

	Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : December 24, 2004 : Christmas Eve
		The entire liturgy of Christmas Eve is consecrated to the anticipation of the certain and sure arrival of the Savior: "Today you shall know that the Lord shall come and tomorrow you shall see His glory" (Invitatory of Matins for the Vigil of the Nativity).
		Christmas Eve is an appropriate time for the exchange of gifts, after the Christ-Child has been placed in the manger, and the special prayers before the crib — and a round of Christmas carols — are over.
		On Christmas Eve the whole house should be strewn with garlands and made ready for the Light of the World.
	www.catholicculture.org /lit/calendar/day.cfm?date=2004-12-24 (714 words)

	For many single Jews, Christmas Eve is a night for romance - The Boston Globe
		Davis confesses that she's feeling pressure to find just the right ensemble because Christmas Eve is perhaps the most important night of the year for the city's Jewish singles.
		While Boston's gentiles are tucked away with their eggnog, plastic Santas, and enough sugar cookies to feed the population of Luxembourg, something massive has happened in the clubs.
		This year in Boston, Jewish singles will be making the scene at the Matzo Ball, two parties staged by an organization called JConnection (one at the Hard Rock Cafe for those in their 20s and 30s, and another in Waltham for singles 40 and up).
	www.boston.com /yourlife/articles/2006/12/21/a_christmas_eve_klatch (0 words)

	Christmas Eve
		Christmas in most homes begins on the evening of December 24th, where excited young children are encouraged to go to bed early so as not to miss out on gifts from Santa Claus.
		Christmas Eve in Canada is a combination of a lot of traditions.
		In some parts of Canada, there is a belief that on Christmas Eve, the dead rise up from their graves and kneel at the foot of the cemetery cross where they are awaited by the previous parish priest wearing a white surplice and golden stole.
	www.calendar-updates.com /info/holidays/canada/christmaseve.aspx (505 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Eve of a Feast
		The Synod of Seligenstadt (1022) mentions vigils on the eves of Christmas, Epiphany, the feast of the Apostles, the Assumption of Mary, St. Laurence, and All Saints, besides the fast of two weeks before the Nativity of St. John.
		The number of vigils in the Roman Calendar besides Holy Saturday is seventeen, viz., the eves of Christmas, the Epiphany, the Ascension, Pentecost, the Immaculate Conception, the Assumption, the eight feasts of the Apostles, St.
		The vigils of Christmas, the Epiphany, and Pentecost are called vigiliae majores; they have a proper Office (semi-double), and the vigil of Christmas, from Lauds on, is kept as a double feast.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05647a.htm (957 words)

	Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
		In any case, on both Christmas Eve and on Christmas Day, special dinners are served, some families beginning their Christmas Eve meals when a child sees the first star of the evening in the Noel sky.
		Christmas Eve and Christmas Day foods vary from country to country, but Christmas Eve dinners are meatless, while Christmas Day is the day of unrestricted feasting, when Christmas candies, marzipan, oranges, apples, tangerines, nuts, and the cookies baked during Advent are all laid out.
		Christmas in the Western world truly is becoming seen as a secular day of merry-making and lust for material things; the holy meaning of this wondrous day needs to be restored.
	www.fisheaters.com /customschristmas2.html (4333 words)

	Christmas Eve Pre-Christian Traditions
		On Christmas Eve in the north he goes about clad in skins or straw and examines children; if they can say their prayers perfectly he rewards them with apples, nuts and gingerbreads; if not, he punishes them.
		Christmas Eve is also in Scandinavian folk-belief the time when the dead revisit their old homes, as on All Souls' Eve in Roman Catholic lands.
		When the Christmas Eve festivities are over, and everyone has gone to rest, the parlor is left tidy and adorned, with a great fire burning, candles lighted, the table covered with a festive cloth and plentifully spread with food, and a jug of Yule ale ready.
	www.abcog.org /xmas2.htm (3341 words)

	Origins of the Christmas Holiday
		Christmas is the fourth most important Christian date after Easter, Pentecost, and Epiphany, a feast held January 6 to commemorate the manifestation of the divinity of Jesus.
		Gradually, Christmas celebrations began to adopt the joyful, often boisterous, holiday traditions of pagan cultures.
		The introduction of Christmas services in Sunday schools reduced religious opposition, while the Charles Dickens novel A Christmas Carol popularized the holiday as a family event.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/christmas1.html (445 words)

	POLISH NEWS - Christmas Page - Christmas Eve. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		The traditional Polish Christmas Eve supper is a meatless occasion.
		The Christmas Day food is totally different from the Christmas Eve menu.
		The dumplings, called "ears" for their characteristic shape, are made by wrapping a mixture prepared from chopped mushrooms fried with onion, in square pieces of Chinese dough, purchased in any grocery store (frozen section).
	www.polishnews.com /fulltext/christmas/eve.shtml (0 words)

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		A romantic and cheerful Christmas Eve in a magic winter park
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	Christmas Eve Celebration,Celebrations on Christmas Eve,Celebration of Christmas Eve
		The importance of Christmas Eve in terms of popular customs is greater than that of the Day itself.
		The tradition of deco- rating a Christmas tree include decorations that are made of pieces of straw strung together on a thread into intricate geometrical figures, colored egg shells and pastry were used to make birds, horses, squirrels, lambs, moons, suns, stars, flowers and other figurines.
		Christmas trees are also decorated with apples, fir or pine cones, nuts and paper cuttings.
	www.christmas-day.org /christmas-eve-celebration.html (285 words)

	Christmas Eve Traditions & Ideas
		Nothing could be more perfect than a light dusting of snow falling on Christmas Eve to bring on the holiday spirit.
		With the commercialization of Christmas, this tradition is probably not near as popular these days because most families have trimmed their tree and put up decorations long before the holiday.
		If you want to be out and about on Christmas Eve, going out to see a holiday movie or play will serve that purpose and add some holiday cheer.
	www.christmas-celebrations.com /christmas_eve.htm (614 words)

	Ukraine and Ukrainian Christmas at BRAMA
		Nicholas Day, not Christmas, is the usual gift-giving day in much of Europe including Ukraine, although for Christmas it was the custom of all members in the family to get a new article of clothing.
		The rituals of the Christmas Eve are dedicated to God, to the welfare of the family, and to the remembrance of the ancestors.
		In Ukraine, this is a very important Christmas tradition, because the stalks of grain symbolize all the ancestors of the family, and it is believed that their spirits reside in it during the holidays.
	www.brama.com /art/christmas.html (2405 words)

	Christmas Eve - Moviefone
		Christmas Eve (1986) (TV) This movie is worth watching, if only for the ending that hits you hard emotionally.
		Christmas Eve (1947) Christmas Eve on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
		Christmas Eve [VHS] video online at Movies Unlimited When an eccentric old woman's (Ann Harding) fortune is targeted by a greedy nephew, the only thing that will save her is a Christmas Eve reunion with her...
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	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Holidays (Christmas Truce)
		By Christmas morning, the "no man's land" between the trenches was filled with fraternizing soldiers, sharing rations and gifts, singing and (more solemnly) burying their dead between the lines.
		However much the momentary peace of 1914 evidenced the desire of the combatants to live in amity with one another, it was doomed from the start by the realities beyond the trenches.
		A celebration of the human spirit, the Christmas Truce remains a moving manifestation of the absurdities of war.
	www.snopes.com /holidays/christmas/truce.asp (0 words)

	Christmas Eve
		We popped them into the oven, began making the frosting from scratch in Christmas colors, got out the coconut, red hot cinnamon candies and whatever else we could find to decorate the cookies.
		Christmas Eve finally arrived and it was time to go to church for the annual children's Christmas program.
		Just before we left the house we were all allowed to open one gift of our choice, which was the tradition, then we piled into Dad's old Chevrolet for church.
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		The first thing to know about celebrating Christmas in Mexico is that most everybody takes off the last two weeks in December - to party, spend more time with the family, visit with old friends, even make new friends.
		Since food and wine are integral to everyday French country living, it's not surprising that the Christmas meal is the core of the holiday celebration in France.
		The grand feast of the season, referred to as le reveillon, is held before midnight mass on Christmas Eve.
	www.lycos.com /info/christmas--christmas-eve.html (523 words)

	Sicilian Culture: Food: Italian Christmas Eve Fish Dinner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		In fact, my mother's side of the family was very poor, so they just had tuna fish mixed in with macaroni, that was their Christmas Eve dinner.
		The origins vary, depending on who you ask, but quite clearly, you did not eat meat on Christmas Eve since it was the birth of Jesus, and just as you would not eat meat on Good Friday, you would not eat meat on Christmas Eve.
		It is tradition that the Sicilians (and Italians) have a 7 fish dinner on Christmas Eve.
	www.sicilianculture.com /food/xmasfish.htm (0 words)

	CD Baby: BRIAN D'ARCY JAMES: From Christmas Eve to Christmas Morn
		I love Michigan Christmas and his other new songs, and he is terrific on White Christmas.
		Christmas records have become too generic and uninspired, with any top selling pop artist banging one out on summer vacation.
		But by far the strongest tracks on this record are Brian's originals, "From Christmas Eve to Christmas Morn", "Santa Claus is Coming Tonight" and "Michigan Christmas", which will warm your heart whether you're from Michigan or Massachusetts...
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	A Christmas Eve
		Christmas Eve 1963 found me on foot patrol on Sullivan Street in the old Fourth Precinct.
		During the Christmas season, the Church on West Houston Street was lit up with lights and displayed a life-sized Nativity scene.
		On that Christmas Eve of 1963 I got home without incident.
	www.nycop.com /Dec_00/A_Christmas_Eve/body_a_christmas_eve.html (0 words)

	Christmas Eve Traditions
		Christmas Eve (December 24) is traditionally the day for decorating churches and homes.
		The children leave mince pies and brandy for Father Christmas, and a carrot for the reindeer.
		During the 19th century, on Christmas Eve, the custom was to offer each caroling guest a posset cup and a piece of apple pie or tart.
	www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk /customs/Xmas/eve.html (616 words)

	Christmas Gifts,Christmas Greetings,Christmas Presents
		Christmas is a time for which people of the whole world look forward to.
		As Christmas Decorations give the houses and streets a festive look during Christmas, it is the Christmas Tree that looks simply stunning.
		Christmas lights have made great strides with modern technology from the first light.
	christmascarnivals.com (282 words)

	Christmas Eve Around the World - Genealogy
		It is "Noel", not Christmas, in France, and presents are brought by Father Noel.
		A huge Christmas Eve dinner is served, focussing on fish, pork and pasta.
		Christmas eve is for family fun and present-opening, with meals of pork and fish.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art15750.asp (352 words)

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