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Réveillon
"This nocturnal meal, eaten after the Midnight Mass in France and Canada, originally consisted of a simple snack of biscuits or a piece of tourtičre, along with a hot drink. With the years, this snack has been transformed little by little into a more lavish and elaborate meal. The same dishes that are served at Christmas dinner are also served at réveillon, which is essentially limited to family.
In Canada, the custom of Christmas réveillon varies depending on the family, the period and the cultural context.
For Francophones living largely in rural areas, Christmas réveillon was not known until the 1930s when family festivities began to take shape with the commercialization of the holiday season.
For Anglophones and city dwellers, on the other hand, Christmas réveillon began to be part of family celebrations much earlier, around 1875. The tendency to feast on Christmas Eve became more and more pronounced with the custom of the decorated tree and the exchange of presents."
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Fascinating, Father Steve. While Brazilians, like their French cousins, celebrate Christmas with a feast on the eve, the word "réveillon" to them means New Year's Eve.
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Well, here you all are! I wanted to send a bit of cheer and parent-ly advice and so my note is in miscellany! But good wishes can never be sent too often. So here they are with a special wish for a happy day to emanuella. Ramadan just ended, Hanukkah is in progress, the winter solstice is being celebrated and we start the 12 days of Christmas today. Surely there must be some wonderfulness going on in Asian countries, too! So one way or another, I wish you all peace and joy and the love of friends and family. To all AWADtalk members, especially, a heartfelt Thank You from me for your kindness, patience and genial collegiality in accepting my posts. Oh, and I really really really do thank you for the laughs along the way. There is a special place in heaven for those who make others laugh and see the absurdity in life. I'm getting too too sentimental. For all those "bah humbug" folk ... have a great day if for no other reason than that you have a paid day off!   Merry Christmastide wow
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As the old pagan holiday season churns ever onward.
Yes, I celebrate, as do many non-liturgical Christians and Jews, the major holidays. Mostly it's the cross-quarter days, GroundFrog Day, May Day, NoName Day and Hollow(sic)een, but Easter (named after the German Goddess) and Yule are up there.
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After six months AWOL I come here late to wish you all a merry Christmas, anyway, I can wish you a happy new year in time. At least to those who use the Gregorian calendar. To the rest, congratulations for you have been spared of the new millennium hype.
This year has been a great one for me and I would like to thank everyone on this forum. Without you it wouldn’t have been the same!.
Juan Maria.
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Thirty years ago -so old am I?- “reveillón” was a common word in Spain and, as in Brazil, we used it for the new year eve celebrations.
Nowadays we have substituted “reveillón” by “cotillón” which is of French origin too.
Juan Maria.
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It strikes me that, in the United States, the secular holidays are those created, endorsed and promoted by such enterprises as Hallmark Greeting Cards, which market moves are promptly seconded by florists, retailers, candy makers and the like. At one time, Holy Mother Church thought herself to have the power to create and declare holidays. Later, here in the Colonies, at least, the Congress thought itself to have this power. Now, the source of true power is disclosed.
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Hallmark! At last, the true culprit is exposed. I've always rather fancied the World Congress of Hungry Retailers myself, but it's natural that there'd be a ringleader. Thanks, Dad.
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Hallmark and its incubi and succubi
Of course, where Hallmark leads, the retailers are not slow to follow. In the contemporary U.S., Halloween is fast becoming more and more a major holiday. People put strings of orange lights on their houses, along with lighted life-size decorations on their lawns the way they do Christmas creches. If there were a modern Clement Clark Moore to invent a personification for Halloween, it would soon rival Christmas as a popular holiday and a retailer's bonanza.
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