When do you take down your Christmas Tree?

When do you take down your Christmas Tree? 

December 26th? The Twelfth Night (5 January)? The Epiphany (Jan 6th)? Baptism of the Lord (Christmas liturgically ends with the Octave of the Epiphany, January 13th)? The Feast of the Purification (Candlemas, Feb 2nd, Christmas spiritually ends)? 

(Those pine needles can often dictate the date!)

This, not Advent, is the true Christmas Season. As most people in secular or Protestantized countries are putting away "Christmas-y" things, and as shopping malls stop blaring "Here Comes Santa Claus," Catholics are just getting started. The cleaning and baking during penitential Advent pays off now, and the feasting and caroling begin!

Trees and fruits - Father SJ Maldonado

Trees and fruits - Father SJ Maldonado

NonPossumus

 This article deals with the exegetical analysis by the P. Juan de Maldonado on the passage of trees and good fruit and bad Matthew 7 : 17-18. As a complement, it should be noted that according to the very prestigious Bible Mons. Straubinger, Our Lord, in parallel instead of Luke 6, 43, does not speak of trees and fruits "good" and "bad", but trees and fruits "healthy" and "rotten".