User talk:The Uber Duber

In Canada where I grew up as an Anglican (Church of England) Boxing Day was a religious holiday, not a Shopping Event. It is of course, very different now. It is actually called "St. Stephen's Day" or "St. Stephen's Feast". That day was set aside for acts of Christian Charity, and engaging in commerce on that day used to be forbidden. The idea, drawn from the phrase "Peace on Earth, and Goodwill to All Men" is that on Boxing Day, you were to give selflessly to others. It was traditional to invite relatives, friends, and sometimes even strangers into your home for dinner, who otherwise might spend Christmas alone. It was traditional to help out at a charity, a soup kitchen, a nursing home, a prison. You would try to bring a little Christmas cheer to the ill, the infirmed, the incarcerated, the indigent, and the poverty stricken. This concept is brought to life in the lyrics to the Christmas Carol "Good King Wenceslas", which exemplifies the original meaning and way of celebrating Boxing Day. A person of means would give selflessly to the less fortunate. "Therefor, Christian Men be sure - (wealth or rank possessing) He who now shall bless the poor - shall Himself find blessing"