In the General Roman Calendar, the 1 January feast, which from 1568 to 1960 was called " The Circumcision of the Lord and the eighth day ( octave day ) of Christmastide.
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In pantomime plays that are traditionally adaptations of fairy tales and performed around Christmastide, the role of lead male was once commonly played by a principal boy a young, attractive, female.
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The feasts of Christmas Day and Christmastide, Epiphany Sunday, Baptism of the Lord Sunday, Transfiguration Sunday, Easter Season, Trinity Sunday, and Christ the King Sunday are represented by white.
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There are several celebrations within Christmastide, including Christmas Day ( 25 December ), St . Stephen's Day ( 26 December ), Twelfth Night ( the evening of 5 January ).
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The Sunday within that octave was since 1893 the feast of the Holy Family, and Christmastide was reckoned as the twelve days ending on January 5, followed by the January 6 13 octave.
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He and Helmore published 12 of these tunes in that same year as " Carols for Christmastide ", and the following year 12 more as " Carols for Eastertide ".
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Elizabethans exchanged gifts on New Year's Day, in the middle of Christmastide, the festive period from Dec . 24 to Jan . 6, or Twelfth Night, the biggest feast of the year.
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I have no idea why those dates were chosen, but the fact that the date of Easter is lunar based to this day makes the solar / lunar theory about Christmastide seem at least plausible to me.
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The clear, unmistakable message comes to me that on that Christmastide, in the bleak and bitter waters off the shores of Korea, God's own hand was at the helm of my ship ."
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In 1969, the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church expanded Christmastide by a variable number of days : " Christmas Time runs from . . . up to and including the Sunday after Epiphany or after 6 January ."
