Many retailers already have Christmas trappings removed from the shelves to make way for Valentine’s Day. In so many ways, this is a sad statement of how commercialism seems to drive our culture.
However, for many, the nativity scenes are still up and the expectation and readiness of those weeks leading to Christmas Day will stay until Jan. 6, the Feast of the Epiphany, when, in the Christian tradition, the three wise men visited the newborn child, recognizing the significance of his birth.
