When is the Real 1st day of Christmas like in the song?
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December 25th.  The 12 days last until  January 6th.  Which is known as Old Christmas
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Christmas is a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. I'm pretty sure that no one knows exactly when he was born, so Dec. 25 was adopted to celebrate his coming. So theres really no need to change it. For myself, I don't think the date is as important as his purpose. On the other hand, Gods timing is perfect, so I'm not going to question it or say that it's not important at all. Also Christians chose this day to counter and influence The Pegan "winter solstice". Some pegans adapted christianity, and Christians adapted the Christmas Tree. "Just one Christians point of view".
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I love this song!\n\nCHRISTMAS CANON - Transiberian Orchestra \n\nMerry Christmas\nMerry Christmas\nMerry Christmas\nMerry Christmas\n\nThe hope that he brings\nThe hope that he brings\nThe hope that he brings\nThe hope that he brings\n\nThis night\nWe pray\nOur lives\nWill show\n\nThis dream\nHe had\nEach child\nStill knows\n\nWe are waiting \nWe have not forgotten \n\nOn this night\nOn this night\nOn this very Christmas night
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The following link tells you what song was number one for each day of each year:\nhttp://www.thisdayinmusic.com/\n\nHappy hunting.
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BRYAN ADAMS » Christmas Time\n\nWe waited all through the year\nFor the day to appear\nWhen we could be together in harmony\n\nYou know the time will come\nPeace on earth for everyone\nAnd we can live forever in a world where we are free\nLet it shine for you and me\n\nThere's something about Christmas time\nSomething about Christmas time\nThat makes you wish it was Christmas everyday\n\nTo see the joy in the children's eyes\nThe way that the old folks smile\nSays that Christmas will never go away\n\nWe're all as one tonight\nMakes no difference if you're black or white\n'cause we can sing together in harmony\n\nI know it's not too late\nThe world would be a better place\nIf we can keep the spirit more than one day in the year\nSend a message loud and clear\n\nChorus:\nIt's the time of year when everyone's together\nWe'll celebrate here on Christmas day\nWhen the ones you love are there\nYou can feel the magic in the air - you know it's everywhere\nThere's something about Christmas time\nSomething about Christmas time\nThat makes you wish it was Christmas every day\n\nTo see the joy in the children's eyes\nThe way that the old folks smile\nSays that Christmas will never go away\n\nRepeat chorus\n\nPlease tell me Christmas will never go away
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Actually, you are still "on time." This is only the Eighth Day of Christmas! Christmas is not just a day, but rather a season and it has 12 days. So you can still say, "Merry Christmas" and be okay. THis is also a great way to celebrate Christmas with many different members of your family. You may celebrate the first day of Christmas with your immediate family and the Ninth Day of Christmas with your inlaws. \n\nAlso, in many cultures, gifts are not given until the Feast of Lights or Epiphany which is on January 6yh. This is to commemorate the Three Kings presenting gifts to the Christ Child and then spreading the Good News of his coming -- the light -- to the rest of the world.\n\nSo, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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Sight, you're on the money. My first thought was Summer Holiday by CR - Great song.\n\nThe Beach boys, among many other bands, have written holiday songs. An expansion of the question is a definite must. You haven't given a time frame:\n\n50's\n60's\n70's\n80's\n90's\nrecent\n\nTake your pick. There have probably been thousands of songs written about holidays (including christmas) over the past 60 years. Also, is the song a cover of someone earlier in modern history? \n\nUltimately, you have to narrow it down for anyone to work it out for you, unless there is a lucky guess. \n\nCheers, L
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Well I am a muslim, I have christian relatives.. Id say it all depends on your beliefs.. If you take Christmas for what it is.. celebrating Jesus's birthday and not anything to do with Santa and the north pole, and snow etc... Then summer might be closer to the real birthdate.. I mean. Jesus was probably born more towards the summer months anyways.. It was in the middle east, during the time when the lambs are born, thats in late spring or early fall.. (maybe summer)..
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Frosty the snowman;  Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer;  JINGLE BELLS:  All i want for xmas is my 2 front teeth;  Santa clause if coming to town;  Silver bells;  I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus;  Chestnuts roasting by an open fire;  Let it snow;  Jingle-bell rock;  Santa baby;  I'll  be home for xmas;  I'm dreaming of a white xmas;  Little drummer boy;  Rockin' around the xmas tree;  O COME all Ye faithful;  Jolly Old St. Nick;  Breath of Heaven:(Mary's Song);  O Xmas Tree;  The first noel;  Silent night ; Away in a manger; hark the herald angels; halleluia chorus from Handles MESSIAH; Angels we have heard on high; the holly and the ivy; O HOLY NIGHT(my favorite! especially sung by Celine Dion!!) Merry Christmas Wherever you are (sung by George Strait) ; The Virgin Mary had a Baby Boy; Silent Night; a holly jollyn xmas; WE WISH YOU A MERRY XMAS:; the 12 Days of xmas;  Joy to the World a Savior's Born( let earth receive its KING); Good King Wenceslas; We need a little xmas; Deck the halls with Boughs of Holly;  A Merry xmas to me;  It must have been the mistletoe; It's Christmas in my Heart;Carol of the Bells!!      That's 41 titles!  There are too many singers to name and the original singers aren't even listed as such anymore because they have been done by hundreds thru the years.  Uless you really mean you want the COMPOSERS< then YOU can go look them up now that you have all these titles!!   LOL
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It varies but on the shortest day - 21st December - it'll be at around 4.30pm xx
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Try thsese links below-\n\nhttp://www.ilovewavs.com/Holidays/Xmas/tf/tf.htm\nhttp://www.christmasgifts.com/music.html\nhttp://www.catholic.net/RCC/music/midi/christmas/index.html\nhttp://www.amclassical.com/christmas.shtml\nhttp://www.jinglebelljukebox.com\nhttp://maynard.ferguson.net/mfxmas.htm\nhttp://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=christmas+song\nhttp://www.the-north-pole.com/carols/
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Okay . . . Okay . . . the questioner is correct . . . \n\nChristmas is originally a pagan holiday . . . a week long festival . . . actually 12 days long . . . reminds you of a song.\n\nThis holiday was adopted to convert pagans into Christianity . . . and they accepted it hook, line, and sinker.\n\nThe majority of the holidays celebrated by Christian have pagan origins . . . but back to Christmas . . . \n\nSome of you said you celebrate this day in remembrance of the birth of Christ.  Did Christ ask his followers to remember his birth?  No he did not . . . instead he commanded his followers to commemorate the last supper in his remembrance . . . . Not do perform it daily or weekly . . . but annually like the early christians did . . . prior to 325 AD.
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Date of the celebration\n\nM’Clintock and Strong’s Cyclopædia says: “The observance of Christmas is not of divine appointment, nor is it of N[ew] T[estament] origin. The day of Christ’s birth cannot be ascertained from the N[ew] T[estament], or, indeed, from any other source.”\n\nLuke 2:8-11 shows that shepherds were in the fields at night at the time of Jesus’ birth. The book Daily Life in the Time of Jesus states: “The flocks . . . passed the winter under cover; and from this alone it may be seen that the traditional date for Christmas, in the winter, is unlikely to be right, since the Gospel says that the shepherds were in the fields.”\n\nThe Encyclopedia Americana informs us: “The reason for establishing December 25 as Christmas is somewhat obscure, but it is usually held that the day was chosen to correspond to pagan festivals that took place around the time of the winter solstice, when the days begin to lengthen, to celebrate the ‘rebirth of the sun.’ . . . The Roman Saturnalia (a festival dedicated to Saturn, the god of agriculture, and to the renewed power of the sun), also took place at this time, and some Christmas customs are thought to be rooted in this ancient pagan celebration.”\n\nThe New Catholic Encyclopedia acknowledges: “The date of Christ’s birth is not known. The Gospels indicate neither the day nor the month . . . According to the hypothesis suggested by H. Usener . . . and accepted by most scholars today, the birth of Christ was assigned the date of the winter solstice (December 25 in the Julian calendar, January 6 in the Egyptian), because on this day, as the sun began its return to northern skies, the pagan devotees of Mithra celebrated the dies natalis Solis Invicti (birthday of the invincible sun). On Dec. 25, 274, Aurelian had proclaimed the sun-god principal patron of the empire and dedicated a temple to him in the Campus Martius. Christmas originated at a time when the cult of the sun was particularly strong at Rome.”\n\nWise men, or Magi, led by a star\n\nThose Magi were actually astrologers from the east. (Matt. 2:1, 2, NW; NE) Although astrology is popular among many people today, the practice is strongly disapproved in the Bible.  Would God have led to the newborn Jesus persons whose practices He condemned?\n\n. Regarding the date for Christmas celebrations, the Enciclopedia de la Religión Católica frankly states: “The reason that the Roman Church decided to assign this date to the festival seems to be its tendency to replace pagan festivals with Christian ones. . . . We know that in Rome at that time, the pagans consecrated December 25 as the celebration of natalis invicti, the birth of the ‘invincible sun.’”\n\n“Christmas has been celebrated on December 25 in all Christian churches since the fourth century. At that time, this was the date of the pagan winter-solstice festival called the ‘Birth (Latin, natale) of the Sun,’ since the sun appeared to be reborn as the days once again became longer. In Rome, the Church adopted this extremely popular custom . . . by giving it a new meaning.”—Encyclopædia Universalis,\n\nZenobia’s Legacy\n\n  Upon returning to Rome after defeating Zenobia, the queen of Palmyra, Emperor Aurelian built a temple to the sun. In it he placed the statues of the sun-god that he had brought back from her city. Commenting on further developments, the magazine History Today says: “The most reverberant of all Aurelian’s actions is perhaps the establishment, in AD 274, of an annual festival of the sun falling on the winter solstice, December 25th. When the empire became Christian the birthday of Christ was transferred to this date to make the new religion more acceptable to those who enjoyed the festivities of the old. It is a curious thought, that it should be ultimately due to the Empress Zenobia that . . . [people] celebrate our Christmas.”
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Jesus Christ: The Real Story\n\nWas Jesus Born on Dec. 25?\n\nMost people assume Jesus was born on Dec. 25. After all, that's the date celebrated throughout the world as the day of His birth. A careful analysis of Scripture, however, clearly indicates that Dec. 25 is an unlikely date for Christ's birth. Here are two primary reasons:\n\nFirst, we know that shepherds were in the fields watching their flocks at night at the time of Jesus' birth (Luke 2:7-8). However, shepherds did not remain in the fields of Judea at night during December due to lack of forage and the bad weather. According to Celebrations: The Complete Book of American Holidays, Luke's account "suggests that Jesus may have been born in summer or early fall. Since December is cold and rainy in Judea, it is likely the shepherds would have sought shelter for their flocks at night" (p. 309).\n\nSimilarly, The Interpreter's One-Volume Commentary says this passage argues "against the birth [of Christ] occurring on Dec. 25 since the weather would not have permitted" shepherds watching over their flocks in the fields at night.\n\nSecond, Jesus' parents came to Bethlehem to register in a Roman census (Luke 2:1-4). The Romans would have known better than to have taken such a census in the dead of winter, when temperatures often dropped below freezing and roads were in poor condition for traveling. Taking a census under such conditions would have been self-defeating.\n\nSo if Jesus Christ was not born on Dec. 25, does the Bible indicate when He was born? The biblical accounts point to the autumn of the year (in the northern hemisphere) as the most likely time of Jesus' birth, based on details of the conception and birth of John the Baptist. \n\nSince Elizabeth (John's mother) was in her sixth month of pregnancy when Jesus was conceived (Luke 1:24-36), we can determine the approximate time of year Jesus was born if we know when John was born. John's father, Zacharias, was a priest serving in the Jerusalem temple during the course of Abijah (Luke 1:5). Historical calculations indicate this course of service corresponded to June 13-19 in that year (The Companion Bible, 1974, Appendix 179, p. 200). \n\nIt was during this time of temple service that Zacharias learned that he and his wife, Elizabeth, would have a child (Luke 1:8-13). After he completed his service and traveled home, Elizabeth conceived (verses 23-24). Assuming John's conception took place near the end of June, adding nine months brings us to the end of March as the most likely time for John's birth. Adding another six months (the difference in ages between John and Jesus) brings us to the end of September as the likely time of Jesus' birth.\n\nAlthough it is difficult to determine the first time anyone celebrated Dec. 25 as Christmas, historians are in general agreement that it was sometime during the fourth century.\n\nThis is an amazingly late date. Christmas was not observed in Rome, the capital of the Roman Empire, until about 300 years after Christ's death. Its origins cannot be traced back to either the teachings or practices of the earliest Christians. To learn more about the origins of Christmas, request or download your free copy of the booklet Holidays or Holy Days: Does It Matter Which Days We Keep?\n\nHolidays or Holy Days: Does It Matter Which Days We Keep?\nTHIS PUBLICATION IS NOT TO BE SOLD. It is a free educational service in the public interest, published by the United Church of God, an International Association.\n\n© 1999, 2001, 2004, 2006 United Church of God, an International Association\nAll rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A.\nScriptures in this booklet are quoted from the New King James Version\n(© 1988 Thomas Nelson, Inc., publishers) unless otherwise noted.\n\nAuthor: David Treybig Contributing writers: Scott Ashley, John Ross Schroeder\n\nEditorial reviewers: John Bald, Roger Foster, Jim Franks, Bruce Gore, Paul Ki
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Easier to follow than the truth.  As you stated, Christmas is one that is a pagan holiday that has come in through tradition.  The Catholic church has adopted many traditions that the rest of the churches as a whole has also adopted as well.  One is the first day as being the day of worship.  I have seen the writings of all the major religious leaders of all the churches that state the Sabbath of the Bible is the seventh day, not the first, and that they know the Catholic church is the one that did the change and yet they follow the sunday worship anyway, the first day of the week, a pagan holiday.  The venerable day of the Sun, when the pagans worshipped the sun god and the whole world follows the pagan tradition.  Those that say they are Christians and do not follow traditions best do some studying into what they are believing.  I would offer $50,000 cash to anyone that can show me from the bible alone that Sunday, the first day of the week is sanctioned by God to be observed as His worship day.  Look it up on the net and you will find there is no command like that, it is only the tradition from the Catholic church.  Easier to follow the crowd than to lead the crowd.
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Twelve Days Of Christmas\nor\nThe Twelve Days Of Christmas