Stuart Reid writes:
This year the absurdity of transferring of the Epiphany (January 6) to the nearest Sunday really hit home. The nearest Sunday was January 3, so we marked the Twelfth Day of Christmas on the Ninth Day of Christmas.
Should we have chucked out our Christmas trees? Will the day come when Christmas Day itself is transferred to the nearest Sunday? (No, because the High Street wouldn't stand for it.)
Our bishops obviously believed they were doing the right thing when they transferred the Epiphany - plus the Ascension and the "Body and Blood of Christ" ("Corpus Christi" for short) - to the nearest Sunday, but the majority of lay people, on whose behalf the bishops were acting, were against the changes. So who gains?
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