Christmas in traditional homes and rural areas, is a religious holiday.
It is a celebration of the Nativity. This means the birthday of Our Lord Jesus. In order to prepare for the day of symbolic commemoration, we have the "Posadas". These celebrations are a "Novena" or nine days before the 24 which is the "Noche Buena" or "Holy Night".These Posadas are an enactment of looking for lodging of St. Joseph and Virgin Mary, called The Pilgrims going to Bethlehem for the Census according to the Scriptures. In Spanish we called them:"Los Peregrinos, San Jose y la Virgen Maria". Each family in a neighborhood, will schedule a night for the Posada to be held at their home, starting on the 16th of December and finishing on the 24th on Noche Buena. Then after all the prayer is done,then it comes the party for the children. They were be a pinata filled with peanuts in the shell, oranges, tangerines, sugar canes,and seldom wrapped hard candy. Of course, there will be other types of chants the children will sing while the child in turn is trying to break the Piñata with a stick while he/she will be blindfolded.
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You sould make your font bigger is hard to read, and the color is also hard to read.Is good to how many people selebrate christmas in many different ways. Every body selebrates christmas for the same reason, but some selebrate it in many diferent ways. For example, in my house we don't do the pinata with peanuts nither the orange thing. I'm shure there are many different ways that people celebrate christmas.
ReplyDeleteWow! That font is quite tiny! Still, what an interesting entry. Thanks!
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