Christmas Date 2009 - Friday 25th December

For Christmas 2009, the 25th December will be on a Friday

Unlike Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving Thursday and Shrove Tuesday, Christmas Day can fall on any day of the week.

• Christmas Day 2007 was on a Tuesday
• Christmas Day 2008 was on a Thursday
• Christmas Day 2009 will be on a Friday
• Christmas Day 2010 will be on a Saturday
• Christmas Day 2011 will be on a Sunday
• Christmas Day 2012 will be on a Tuesday
   (Due to the leap year)

The last time that Christmas Day was on a Friday was 1998.

Naturally, Boxing Day follows Christmas Day; however, New Year's Day is always the same day of the week as Christmas Day, only one week later. 

Which Day of the Week is Best for Christmas Day?

• Monday - Has a certain logic, start the week with Christmas!
• Tuesday -  Start the week with Christmas Eve.
• Wednesday - OK.
• Thursday - Middling time of the week, Boxing Day on a Friday is good.
• Friday - End of the week, Boxing Day falls on a Saturday.
• Saturday - Not my favourite day, does not seem quite right.
• Sunday - Natural, religious feel to Christmas on a Sunday.

Christmas 2009 Stamps

2009 UK Christmas Stamps

This year's designs show stained glass windows, a theme previously used in 1971 and 1992.

The Royal Mail have unveiled their Christmas stamps for Christmas 2009 and feature religious pictures depicted in stained glass windows. The Christmas stamps feature the work of Pre-Raphaelite artists William Morris, Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Henry Holiday. The stamps were designed by Andrew Ross after he researched hundreds of photographs of stained glass windows from around the country, before deciding upon the final set of images from the 19th century.

2009 USA Christmas Stamps

The 2009 Christmas stamp features "Madonna and Sleeping Child", a painting by Italian artist Giovanni Battista Salvi (1609-1685), more commonly known as Sassoferrato.

The 2009 winter holiday season will be celebrated with stamps featuring a reindeer, snowman, gingerbread man and toy soldier. Stamp artist Joseph Cudd, of Greensboro, NC, created the stamps under the direction of Richard Sheaff.

Angel with Lute (see right). This 2009 stamp features a detail of a fragment of a circa-1480 fresco by Melozzo da Forli (1438-1494).

Hanukkah

The 2009 Hanukkah design features a photograph of a menorah with nine lit candles. The menorah was designed by Lisa Re gan of the Garden Deva Sculpture Company in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and photographed by Ira Wexler of Braddock Heights, MD.

The eight days and nights of Hanukkah, a joyous annual festival, begin on the 25th of Kislev in the Hebrew calendar, a date that falls in late November or December. Hanukkah begins on December 11 in 2009, and on December 1 in 2010.

Kwanzaa

With this colorful stamp, the Postal Service celebrates Kwanzaa, a non-religious holiday that takes place over seven days from December 26 to Jan. 1. Kwanzaa draws on African traditions and takes its name from the phrase for "first fruits" in Swahili, a widely spoken African language.  Stamp artist Lloyd McNeill of New York City, created a festive, highly symbolic design to celebrate the holiday.

Service?

It was a cold and misty Christmas morning in the very depth of winter after a heavy fall of snow and only Farmer Evans and the Reverend Joseph Lancaster managed to arrive at the church for the morning service.

'Well,' said the Vicar laconically, 'I guess there's no point in having a service today.'

'Well that's not how I see it.' said Farmer Evans smartly. 'If only one cow turns up at feeding time, I still feed it.'

Christmas Riddles

• What do you get if Santa comes down your chimney when the fire is a alight?
  Crisp Kringle
• Why does rain drop, but snow fall?
  (Nobody can answer this conundrum)
• What do you call people who are frightened of Santa?
  Will's Answer: Claustraphopic.    (Guy's answer: Non-existent)
• Sterling silver charms to bring good fortune. 
  Notice on the back: Potential choking hazard: do not use with food.

Will and Guy's Humour for Christmas 2009

Christmas Humour - Clean jokes, funny pictures, amusing stories.

• Xmas Pictures
• Christmas Snow
• Christmas Trees!
• Santa Claus Pictures
• Rudolph's Red Nose
• Funny Christmas Jokes
• Jokes for Xmas
• Snowball Video
• Kids Christmas Jokes
• Short Stories for Christmas
• The True Religious Story of Christmas
• Angels for Christmas
• Carols at Christmas

Dear Santa

If you leave a new bike under the tree, I will give you the antidote to the poison I put in the milk.

Timmy. 

How to Say "Merry Christmas" in 75 Other Languages

Language	Merry Christmas
Afrikaans	Gesëende Kersfees
Albanian	Gezur Krislinjden
Arabic	Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
Argentine	Feliz Navidad
Armenian	Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand
Basque	Zorionak eta Urte Berri On!
Bengali	Shuvo Naba Barsha
Bohemian	Vesele Vanoce
Brazilian	Boas Festas e Feliz Ano Novo
Breton	Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat
Bulgarian	Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo
Catalan	Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou!
Chile	Feliz Navidad
Chinese	(Cantonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun
Chinese	(Mandarin) Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan
Cornish	Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth
Corsian	Pace e salute
Croatian	Sretan Bozic
Czech	Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok
Danish	Glædelig Jul
Dutch	Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!
English	Merry Christmas
Eskimo	(inupik) Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo!
Esperanto	Gajan Kristnaskon
Estonian	Ruumsaid juulup|hi
Finnish	Hyvaa joulua
Flemish	Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar
French	Joyeux Noel
Frisian	Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier!
Gaelic	Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr!
German	Froehliche Weihnachten
Greek	Kala Christouyenna!
Hawaiian	Mele Kalikimaka
Hebrew	Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova
Hindi	Shub Naya Baras
Hawaiian	Mele Kalikimaka ame Hauoli Makahiki Hou!
Hungarian	Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket
Icelandic	Gledileg Jol
Indonesian	Selamat Hari Natal
Iraqi	Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
Irish	Nollaig Shona Dhuit, or Nodlaig mhaith chugnat
Italian	Buone Feste Natalizie
Japanese	Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
Korean	Sung Tan Chuk Ha
Latin	Natale hilare et Annum Faustum!
Latvian	Prieci'gus Ziemsve'tkus un Laimi'gu Jauno Gadu!
Lithuanian	Linksmu Kaledu
Maltese	LL Milied Lt-tajjeb
Manx	Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa
Maori	Meri Kirihimete
Norwegian	God Jul, or Gledelig Jul
Papua New Guinea	Bikpela hamamas blong dispela Krismas na Nupela yia i go long yu
Peru	Feliz Navidad y un Venturoso Año Nuevo
Philippines	Maligayan Pasko!
Polish	Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia or Boze Narodzenie
Portuguese	Feliz Natal
Romanian	Sarbatori fericite & La multi ani
Russian	Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom
Samoan	La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou
Serbian	Hristos se rodi
Slovakian	Sretan Bozic or Vesele vianoce
Samoan	La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou
Scots Gaelic	Nollaig chridheil huibh
Serbian	Hristos se rodi.
Slovak	Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok
Spanish	Feliz Navidad
Swedish	God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt Ã...r
Thai	Sawadee Pee Mai
Tongan	Mele Kalisimasi
Turkish	Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
Ukrainian	Srozhdestvom Kristovym
Urdu	Naya Saal Mubarak Ho
Vietnamese	Chung Mung Giang Sinh
Welsh	Nadolig Llawen
Yugoslavian	Cestitamo Bozic

Following Christmas 2009, the next time Christmas Day will be on a Friday is in 2015.

See more about Christmas Day:

∗ Christmas humour    ∗ Christmas 2007    ∗ Christmas 2008    ∗ Christmas 2009    ∗ Christmas 2010

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