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Christmas Carols are not sung in Catholic Churches until Christmas Eve at twilight services!

The liturgical year has four weeks of advent prior to the Christmas celebration. We sing songs such as Oh Come, Oh Come, Emmanuel during the beginning of December.

Jesus was born on Christmas Day as far as the liturgical calendar goes, and we celebrate his coming during the so-called “twelve days of Christmas” up until and including Epiphany on January 6th. That is when we sing Christmas Carols in church.

[AnAmericanMother]

We jumped the gun this year with an Advent concert titled "A Prelude to Christmas". So we were singing Christmas carols (and some Advent carols like Hassler's "Dixit Maria") in the church last week . . . on the sanctuary steps . . . .

. . . to wild acclaim. Choirmaster and my husband hatched a scheme to record the concert from upstairs in the choir loft with one of those tiny little Sony digital recorders. Amazingly enough, it seems to have worked! So a CD may be available soon . . . .