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====Christmastide====
[[File:Advent Wreath on Christmas Eve (Broadway United Methodist Church).jpg|thumb|A white coloured [[parament]] hangs from the [[pulpit]], indicating that the current liturgical season is [[Christmastide]]. The fact that the Christ Candle in the centre of the [[Advent wreath]] is lit also indicates that [[Christmas]] has arrived.]]
{{Main|Christmastide}}
The [[Christmas season]] immediately follows Advent. The traditional [[Twelve Days of Christmas]] begin with [[Christmas Eve]] on the evening of [[December 24]] and continue until the feast of [[Epiphany (holiday)|Epiphany]]. The actual Christmas season continues until the [[Feast of the Baptism of Christ]], which is celebrated on the Sunday after January 6, or the following Monday if that Sunday is kept as Epiphany.<ref name="maternalheart.org">{{Cite web|url=http://www.maternalheart.org/library/1962rubrics.pdf|title=Code of Rubrics included in the 1962 Roman Missal, 72}}</ref>

In the pre-1970 form, this feast is celebrated on January 13, unless January 13 is a Sunday, in which case the feast of the [[Holy Family]] is celebrated instead.<ref name="maternalheart.org"/> Until the suppression of the Octave of the Epiphany in the 1960 reforms, January 13 was the Octave day of the Epiphany, providing the date for the end of the season.

Traditionally, the end of Christmastide was February 2, or the [[Presentation of Jesus at the Temple|Feast of the Presentation]] of the Lord, also known as [[Candlemas]]. This feast recounts the 40 days of rest Mary took before being purified and presenting her first-born son to the Temple in Jerusalem. In medieval times, Candlemas eve (Feb. 1st) marked the day when all Christmas decorations, including the [[Christmas tree]] and the [[Nativity scene]], were taken down. However, the tradition of ending Christmastide on Candlemas has slowly waned, except in some pockets of the Hispanic world where Candlemas (or La Fiesta de la Candelaria) is still an important feast and the unofficial end of the Christmas season.

''Liturgical colour'': white