Christmas fell on a Sunday most recently in 2011 and will again be on a Sunday in the year 2016.
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Christmas was on a Monday in 1989, since then Christmas was on Sunday in 1994, 2000, 2005, 2011 and will be on a Sunday again in 2016.
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Every five, six or eleven years - we are currently (as of 2012) in the five year span, which means that Christmas of 2011 was a Sunday and due to the manoeuvring of the calendar dates in 2016 due to the leap day - Christmas will again (in 2016) be on a Sunday.
Since the turn of the century, Christmas has been on Sunday twice - once in 2005 and then again in 2011 - six years later - and due to the manoeuvring of the leap day in 2016, the next time Christmas will be on Sunday won't be in 2017 - six years later - but in 2016!
It did in 2004 and it will again in 2032, in these years Christmas jumps from Thursday to Saturday.
Roman Catholic AnswerYes, if Christmas falls on a Saturday, you must attend Mass for the Holy Day, and then again on Sunday for the Sunday. In the United States, the obligation for a Holy Day is abrogated if the Holy Day falls on Saturday only for *some* Holy Days of Obligation - Christmas is NOT one of them.
Catholic AnswerOrdinary Time begins the Monday after the last Sunday of the Christmas Season (after Epiphany), and ends on Tuesday evening before Ash Wednesday (forty days before Easter). Then it starts again on Monday morning following Pentecost Sunday (fifty days after Easter) and runs until Mid-Afternoon Prayer on the Saturday before the First Sunday of Advent (which is the first of the four Sundays before Christmas).
No. It depends upon which day Christmas Day falls. There must be four Sundays in Advent. Therefore, if the first Sunday of Advent falls on December 1st, then the other three will fall on 8th, 15th and 22nd with Christmas being on 25th (Wednesday).However, as Christmas falls this year (2009) on a Friday, there are only three Sundays in December before Friday 25th, namely 6th, 13th and 20th and so, for this year, the first Sunday in Advent had to start in November (29th).Next year (2010) will be the same with the first Sunday of Advent starting on 28th November.In 2011 the first Sunday of Advent starts on Nov 27th, as Christmas falls on a Sunday and, again, there will not be four Sundays in December before Christmas Day.The next time Advent starts on the first Sunday in December will be in 2012 when it falls on Dec 2nd.
January 23 has fallen on a Sunday in the years 1955, 1966, 1972, 1977, 1983, 1994, 2000, 2005 and will fall on a Sunday again in 2011.