# What do Christians celebrate on the second days of Christmas, Easter and Pentecost?

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**Created:** [December 26, 2021, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-christians-celebrate-on-the-second-days-of-christmas-easter-and-pentecost/956676 "2021-12-26T18:43:39Z")\
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> [@EinsteinsHund](#):
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> But what do Christians celebrate on the respective second days of those holidays?

Ooh, ooh, Mistah Kotter! I know this! And I’m a catechist (teach confirmation), so I’m an authority…

We celebrate all those annoying extended family members leaving our house.

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> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> The most common Advent hymn in the Anglican calendar is “O Come O come Emmanuel”, in a minor key. Not a Christmas carol.

Catholic, too. Unsurprising, given that even the “modern” version of that song is a few centuries older than the Protestant Reformation.

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> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> And same for Advent in the Anglican communion - it’s purple / Sarum blue, and no Christmas songs. The most common Advent hymn in the Anglican calendar is “O Come O come Emmanuel”, in a minor key. Not a Christmas carol.

If you ask 100 low-church Christians, every single one of them will say that “O Come O Come Emmanuel” is a Christmas carol.

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If you ask a hundred, there’s pretty good odds that one of them will be the church’s music director, or a pedantic Doper, or someone else who would be aware of the distinction.

But yeah, most will call it a Christmas carol.

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**Post date:** [January 1, 2022, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-christians-celebrate-on-the-second-days-of-christmas-easter-and-pentecost/956676/25 "2022-01-01T04:58:39Z")

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> [@md-2000](#):
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> It’s right out of the “humble beginnings” legends playbook for every folk hero, the first danger they evade. (Along with “descended from noble blood”)

Yeah, but where do the Two Turtle Doves come in?

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