Editing New Year's Day (section)

====Christian observance====
[[File:Wels new years eve church service.jpg|thumb|A [[watchnight service|Watchnight Mass]] at a Lutheran Christian church on New Year's Eve (2014)]]
Christians of various denominations (Catholics, Lutherans, Anglicans, and Moravians, among others) often attend a [[watchnight service]] (also known as a Watchnight Mass if Holy Communion is celebrated) on the night of [[New Year's Eve]] and this liturgy concludes in the morning of New Year's Day. Watchnight services provide the opportunity for Christians to review the year that has passed and [[Repentance (theology)|make confession]], and then prepare for the year ahead by [[Christian prayer|praying]] and [[New Year's resolution|resolving]].<ref name="Ritchie">{{cite book|author=James Ewing Ritchie|url = https://archive.org/details/religiouslifelo00ritcgoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/religiouslifelo00ritcgoog/page/n238 223]| title = The Religious Life of London|year=1870|publisher = [[Tinsley Brothers]]|access-date = 28 December 2011|quote=At A Watch-Night Service: Methodism has one special institution. Its lovefeasts are old-old as Apostolic times. Its class meetings are the confessional in its simplest and most unobjectionable type, but in the institution of the watch-night it boldly struck out a new path for itself. In publicly setting apart the last fleeting moments of the old year and the first of the new to penitence, and special prayer, and stirring appeal, and fresh resolve, it has set an example which other sects are preparing to follow.}}</ref> The [[Church service|services]] often include singing, praying, exhorting, [[preaching]], and [[Holy Communion]].<ref name="DM2007">{{cite web |title=Watch Night of Freedom |url=https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/resources/watch-night-of-freedom |publisher=[[Discipleship Ministries]] |access-date=1 January 2021 |language=en |date=2007 |quote=The Watch Night service is today most often held on New Year's Eve, sometimes concluding at midnight, or on New Year's Day.}}</ref><ref name="Lawrence">{{cite book|author=Anna M. Lawrence|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=94bTO6O2bDAC&q=watchnight+service&pg=PA104| title = One Family Under God: Love, Belonging, and Authority in Early Transatlantic Methodism|date=5 May 2011|publisher = [[University of Pennsylvania Press]]|isbn = 978-0812204179|access-date = 28 December 2011|quote=In 1740, Wesley started watch-night services for the coal miners of the Kingswood area, offering this nocturnal worship as a godly alternative to spending their evenings in ale-houses. The watch-night services consisted of singing, praying, exhorting, and preaching for a number of hours. Wesley meant to establish it as a monthly practice, always at full moon to keep the meeting well lit. In America, this service often supplanted times of traditional drunken revelry, like New Year's Eve and Christmas Eve.}}</ref>

As a date in the Christian calendar, New Year's Day liturgically marked the [[Feast of the Circumcision of Christ|Feast of the Naming and Circumcision of Jesus]], which is still observed as such in the [[Lutheran Church]], [[Anglican Communion|Anglican Church]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=McKim |first=Donald K. |author-link=Donald McKim |title=Westminster Dictionary of Theological Terms |publisher=Westminster John Knox Press |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-664-22089-1 |page=51 |url=https://archive.org/details/westminsterdicti0000mcki/page/n7/mode/2up}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hobart |first=John Henry |url=https://archive.org/details/acompanionforfe01hobagoog |title=A Companion for the festivals and fasts of the Protestant Episcopal Church |publisher=Stanford & Co. |year=1840 |page=[https://archive.org/details/acompanionforfe01hobagoog/page/n279 284]}}</ref> the [[Ambrosian Rite|Ambrosian]] section of the Catholicism, the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] (Julian calendar, see [[#Continuing use of the Julian calendar|below]]) and in [[Traditional Catholics|Traditional Catholicism]] by those who retain the usage of the [[General Roman Calendar of 1960]]. The mainstream Roman Catholic Church celebrates on this day the [[Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=New year celebrations have changed throughout history|date=30 December 2021|url=https://www.delgazette.com/opinion/columns/94170/new-year-celebrations-have-changed-throughout-history|access-date=31 December 2021|archive-date=22 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220922084541/https://www.delgazette.com/opinion/columns/94170/new-year-celebrations-have-changed-throughout-history|url-status=live}}</ref> In [[Western Christianity]], the Feast of the Naming and Circumcision of Jesus Christ marks the [[Twelve Days of Christmas|eighth day]] (octave day) of [[Christmastide]].<ref name="MacBeth2014">{{cite book|last=MacBeth|first=Sybil|title=The Season of the Nativity|date=1 November 2014|publisher=Paraclete Press|language=en|isbn=9781612616131|page=113|quote=January 1, New Year's Day, is also the eighty day of Christmas. On the eighth day of life Jewish boys have a circumcision ceremony, or bris. January 1 is the Circumcision of Christ and the Feast of the Holy Name.}}</ref>