[erlayman]

Christmas trees are secular symbols anyway so they probably thought that can start anytime.

[jafojeffsurf]

True a Christmas Tree is not essential to “Christmas”, Christ Mass, Mass on the Day we celebrate the Birth of Jesus, it is a bit more than Just Secular.

St. Boniface and the Christmas Tree
http://www.catholic.com/blog/steve-weidenkopf/st-boniface-and-the-christmas-tree

God Bless