No, the Christmas Season isn’t over.

 ADVENT — the four week preparation-period leading up to December 25 — is over.

 CHRISTMAS — the 40-day season celebrating Christ’s birth, lasting until February 2 (the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary) — has just begun.

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 Some shopkeepers and others, disciples of materialism, may on December 26, start switching everything off.

 For believers, however, Christmas goes on, full tilt, for another 40 days.

 During those days Christmas Carols should be sung.

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 Right through January, until February 2, let’s keep wishing each other a “Happy  and a Holy Christmas!”