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Feast of the Circumcision of Christ

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780: 198: 20: 1790: 241:, the child was circumcised and given the name Jesus. In the 13th or 14th century 1 January began to be celebrated in Rome, as already in Spain and Gaul, as the feast of the Circumcision of the Lord and the Octave of the Nativity, while still oriented towards Mary and Christmas. The emphasis that Saint 285:
Circumcision and the Name of Jesus" or simply "The Name of Jesus." Martin Luther preached at least one notable sermon on this feast day, which is still available in his Church Postils, and most Lutheran hymnals prior to the 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship contain several hymns for the occasion.
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As the Circumcision of Our Lord is a feast of Christ and related directly to the life of Christ as recounted in Holy Scripture (notably Luke 2:21), it is celebrated by Lutheran churches. It remains on Lutheran liturgical calendars to this day, although some Lutherans now use the title "The
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January 1, New Year's Day, is also the eighty day of Christmas. On the eighty day of life Jewish boys have a circumcision ceremony, or bris. January 1 is the Circumcision of Christ and the Feast of the Holy
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And when eight days were fulfilled to circumcise the child, his name was called Jesus, the name called by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. (Luke 2:21)
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In the northern European calculation, which abstracts from the day from which the count begins, the interval was of seven days.
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A Prayer Book for Australia (1995) of the Anglican Church of Australia calls it "The Naming and Circumcision of Jesus".
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calls 1 January simply the Octave of the Nativity. (This 1960 calendar was incorporated into the 1962
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calls it "The Octave Day of Christmas, and the Circumcision of Our Lord, being New Year's Day".
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The circumcision of Jesus has traditionally been seen, as in the popular 14th-century work the
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names this day "The Holy Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ", a Feast of the Lord.
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states: "1 January, the Octave Day of the Nativity of the Lord, is the
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in the universal calendar which do not normally fall on a Sunday.
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celebrated on 1 January a feast that it called the anniversary (
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has listed this day as "The Naming and Circumcision of Jesus."
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the next morning, Russian churches often celebrate a New Year
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liturgy celebrates this day as the Circumcision of Christ.
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Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the Calendar
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was shed, and thus the beginning of the process of the
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celebrates this day as the Circumcision of the Lord.
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Menologion of Basil II
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Jewish tradition
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Golden Legend
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redemption of man
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Lutheran
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Octave
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Basil the Great
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