The 12 days of Christmas

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Did you know that the 12 days of Christmas was written as a secret teaching tool to instruct children in the meaning of the Christian faith? See from 1558 to 1829 Roman Catholics in England were forbidden from openly practicing their religion. So the song 12 days of Christmas was a code that was devised to get the message across. Do you know what the words mean?

Passage:
My true love

Me

Partridge in a pear tree

Two turtle doves

Three french hens

Four calling birds

Five gold rings

Six geese a-lying

Seven swans a-swimming

eight maids a-milking

Nine ladies dancing

Ten lords a-leaping

Eleven pipers piping

Twelve drummers drumming

Can you break the code?
 
Don’t be sorry! I for one learned something. I knew it had to do with hidden meanings but I couldn’t tell which ones. Thank you!
 
I used to find this song annoying. I’m glad to know it has meaning now. It makes sense.
Even if some find it to be a legend, some legends should be true even if they are not. Think about it. It’s faith. If you don’t want to believe it to be such a great story, then it just becomes a secular stupid annoying song. Why would you listen to it? I’m going with the catholics. Their history and tradition are pretty solid. The closest thing to heaven on earth is their Mass. And Christmas means Christ’s Mass, it’s such a deep faith and only directs you upward.👍
 
From wikipedia:
“The twelve days in the song are the twelve days starting Christmas day, or in some traditions, the day after Christmas (December 26) (Boxing Day or St. Stephen’s Day, as being the feast day of St. Stephen Protomartyr) to the day before Epiphany, or the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6, or the Twelfth Day).”

Is it advisable to fast those 12 days as appreciation for JESUS? or we should celebrate them?
 
Sam_777 said:
From wikipedia:
“The twelve days in the song are the twelve days starting Christmas day, or in some traditions, the day after Christmas (December 26) (Boxing Day or St. Stephen’s Day, as being the feast day of St. Stephen Protomartyr) to the day before Epiphany, or the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6, or the Twelfth Day).”

Is it advisable to fast those 12 days as appreciation for JESUS? or we should celebrate them?
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I think the idea is that a mountain of food is created for December 25th and then everybody tries to eat it - until the night of December 31st when everybody regrets eating so much and resolves to lose all the weight they’ve put on over the previous few days. The resulting fast has been known to last until January 2nd.
 
Kaninchen said:
I think the idea is that a mountain of food is created for December 25th and then everybody tries to eat it - until the night of December 31st when everybody regrets eating so much and resolves to lose all the weight they’ve put on over the previous few days. The resulting fast has been known to last until January 2nd.
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Ironically, fasting doesn’t really help to lose weight, since it just shuts down the metabolism, which needs to be up and running in order to burn calories in the form of fat.

Maybe the people who celebrate Festivus had it right with their emphasis on “feats of strength”.
 
tomarin said:
Ironically, fasting doesn’t really help to lose weight, since it just shuts down the metabolism, which needs to be up and running in order to burn calories in the form of fat.

Maybe the people who celebrate Festivus had it right with their emphasis on “feats of strength”.
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I’m one of those fortunates whose weight is at the lower end of the range for my height and rarely varies very much so I’m not much of a diet expert - though, thinking about it, perhaps I am but don’t realise it! 😃
 
Kaninchen said:
I’m one of those fortunates whose weight is at the lower end of the range for my height and rarely varies very much so I’m not much of a diet expert - though, thinking about it, perhaps I am but don’t realise it! 😃
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That is fortunate. I was like that too, once, until middle-age caught up with me.

As for me, my standing as an expert is limited to the precincts of my own skull.
 
Kaninchen said:
I think the idea is that a mountain of food is created for December 25th and then everybody tries to eat it - until the night of December 31st when everybody regrets eating so much and resolves to lose all the weight they’ve put on over the previous few days. The resulting fast has been known to last only until January 2nd,
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at which time post-holiday depression sets in, and the overeating which accompanies that.

It is called the secular Christmas roller-coaster.
 
Kaninchen said:
I think the idea is that a mountain of food is created for December 25th and then everybody tries to eat it - until the night of December 31st when everybody regrets eating so much and resolves to lose all the weight they’ve put on over the previous few days. The resulting fast has been known to last until January 2nd.
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:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
 
Sam_777 said:
From wikipedia:
“The twelve days in the song are the twelve days starting Christmas day, or in some traditions, the day after Christmas (December 26) (Boxing Day or St. Stephen’s Day, as being the feast day of St. Stephen Protomartyr) to the day before Epiphany, or the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6, or the Twelfth Day).”

Is it advisable to fast those 12 days as appreciation for JESUS? or we should celebrate them?
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Actually, Sam 777, you “don’t fast when the Bridegroom is there”, do you! Advent was designed to prepare us for both the celebration of the first Coming in human flesh of the Lord of Lords AND for His second Coming at the end of time… We might tend to forget the latter.
For the first Coming, when John the Baptist announced it to the people of Israel, those who believed him would prepare themselves by receiving a baptism of repentance. And what should the people do in preparing themselves for the second Coming
 
I haven’t have to fast much during Christmas Time up to now. I guess I am more careful not to yield so easily to excesses like I used to do in the past…
For really, “fasting” during Christmas only means you are trying to recover from your own overeating… which is not quite the original purpose of the days ot fasting in a religious calendar…
 
Lapell said:
Actually, Sam 777, you “don’t fast when the Bridegroom is there”, do you! Advent was designed to prepare us for both the celebration of the first Coming in human flesh of the Lord of Lords AND for His second Coming at the end of time… We might tend to forget the latter.
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I guess you are right :), celebration is the answer, I just wanted to make it as Islamic Ramadan where we (ordered) to fast 30 days, so adding 12 days for JESUS (love) is not an issue for me.
 
Sam_777 said:
Do you have a scientific evidence/link for that?
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This is the best I can do for you at the moment. But if you think about it it’s just common sense.

From the article:

Why does a very low calorie intake slow down weight loss?

Quite simply, your body goes into ‘starvation mode’. This mechanism, which is thought to have evolved as a defence against starvation, means the body becomes super efficient at making the most of the calories it does get from food and drink. The main way it does this is to protect its fat stores and instead use lean tissue or muscle to provide it with some of the calories it needs to keep functioning. This directly leads to a loss of muscle, which in turn lowers metabolic rate so that the body needs fewer calories to keep ticking over and weight loss slows down. Of course, this is the perfect solution if you’re in a famine situation. But if you’re trying to lose weight, it’s going to do little to help you shift those unwanted pounds.
 
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