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The Sunday following Christmas the old liturgy proscribed was “The Sunday within the octave of Christmas” that gospel related the visit to relatives and a prophets warning to Mary .
Today post Vatican 2 that Sunday is the feast of the Holy Family who’s gospel recalls Jesus at age 12 and is out of chronological and liturgical sequence with Epiphany which recalls shortly after the birth of Jesus and the visits of the 3 kings .
New Years was the feast first called Circumcision (term,practice,being dumped) then later named the feast of The Presentation.{NOTE: During WWII there was a popular misconception that the way the Nazis could tell if a male person was a Jew was if that person was circumcised, Catholics (not all) were also circumcised }. This gospel was of the Holy Family following Jewish traditions and practice,then if a Sunday came between Circumcision and Epiphany it was The Feast of The Holy Name of Jesus.
excerted from my poetry page in;
http://www.theusmat.com/natdesk.htm