In Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula, the Midnight Mass is also referred to as "Rooster's Mass" ( Misa de Gallo in Spanish, Missa do Galo in Portuguese and Missa del Gall in Catalan). The cult of the dead is well noticed in the custom when, after Christmas Eve supper the table is not cleared but left overnight. Actually, there's no Boxing Day in the United States, they refer to it as a Canadian "holiday" (speaking as a Canadian).

However, in the US, where Randall lives, Christmas is usually defined as the single day of December 25th. The Renaissance humanist Sebastian Brant recorded, in Das Narrenschiff (1494; The Ship of Fools), the custom of placing branches of fir trees in houses. Married to fellow children's author / illustrator, Tim Warnes, the couple are now celebrating 20 Years in Children’s Books!The joke is that the comic will always display a static image reading NO, even on Christmas Day, and that the rare incorrect answer is rare enough to not cause any concern.

Pennsylvania Dutch settlers, predominantly Moravian settlers of Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Lititz in Pennsylvania and the Wachovia settlements in North Carolina, were enthusiastic celebrators of Christmas.The figure is right if you just mean Christmas Day and ignore the Julian vs Gregorian issue, but not you subscribe to "the 12 days of Christmas" = Christmas . Since the page uses the browsing computer's time setting, it is possible to easily check that the page works by changing the date on the computer used to access the page to see the text change to Yes if you are reading it on December 25. At one funeral in No Man's Land, soldiers from both sides gathered and read a passage from Psalm 23. Christmas was promoted in the East as part of the revival of Orthodox Christianity that followed the death of the pro- Arian Emperor Valens at the Battle of Adrianople in 378. The Byzantine services of Christmas Eve are intentionally parallel to those of Good Friday, illustrating the theological point that the purpose of the Incarnation was to make possible the Crucifixion and Resurrection.