by holidayconnections · Published 12/13/2022 · Last modified 12/29/2022
In the United States, it is a tradition to have Christmas Carolers, and children performing a Nativity Play. In Mexico, many of the Christian traditions started as a way to convert indigenous people to Catholicism....
by holidayconnections · Published 12/05/2022
Luke’s Nativity text in the New Testament, has been the inspiration to four well-known canticles, although their exact origins remain unknown: The Magnificat, in Luke 1:46–55, is spoken by Mary and is one of the...
by holidayconnections · Published 12/05/2022
One of the things I miss most from my childhood was “Las Posadas”. When I was young I waited for a whole year to break a piñata during “Las Posadas,” because that was the only...
by holidayconnections · Published 01/05/2022
Orthodox Christmas day occurs every January 7 because the Eastern Orthodox Church still chooses to celebrate the birth of Jesus using the Julian calendar, which was introduced by Julius Caesar in the year 46 B.C...