War on Christmas

I came into the office yesterday morning, and people started talking to me about personnel data and the Web site and all kinds of crap.

I said "Wait a minute. What's up with all this work-related carrying on here? Isn't it almost Christmas?"

"Not so fast, Big Daddy," my coworkers admonished reprovingly. "Christmas isn't until Sunday. We work a full five days this week. Put down the fruitcake and troubleshoot our payroll report."

Talk about your War on Christmas!

Seriously. We need to get Christmas back on track here. There are actually megachurches out there cancelling Sunday services because Sunday is Christmas, and who can be bothered to go to the House of the Lord on Christmas?

If you ask me, we need to get back on a traditional Christmas schedule, and by that I mean 12 days of Christmas, beginning at midnight on December 25th and ending on January 6th, the Feast of the Epiphany, which seems to have disappeared from the liturgical calendar in recent years.

(I realize that December 25th to January 6th is actually thirteen days, but when you're Catholic you don't ask a lot of questions.)

Kurt "big daddy" True
20 december 2005