Hello, I’m back.
This week’s challenge was to make a holiday post.
I decided to make mine about something that my family celebrates.
First thing is that my family is from Colombia. According to them this tradition has its origins there. They’re called Novenas. Now what are these? How my family celebrates it is nine parties in different houses leading up to Christmas Eve where the biggest of the 9 happens. These Novenas come from Catholic traditions. They’re nine days of prayer.
To understand why Novenas before Christmas come from Colombia, is because Colombia has a vast majority of people who are Catholic. My grandparents and my great parents and everybody else before them have been Catholic. My parents however aren’t really believers in a religion anymore even though they were brought up that way.
The Novenas are usually started off with a bit of prayers with some singing here and there, Spanish Christmas songs to be precise. After the prayers comes my second favourite part. The food. The host family makes food for the whole group and other families will bring a few things like dessert or drinks. After the food is my favourite part. We kids are free to go play around or watch a movie.
Eating time at one of the Novenas last year.
The Novenas are celebrated with friends and family. You can have 1 family come over or many more. Some of the families we celebrate it with are however more devout Catholics. They always start on December 16th no matter the day of the week. The last day is Christmas Eve.
I was never brought up with any religious beliefs at my house. So personally sitting down in prayer is a bit boring but if they’re your beliefs, go for it as long as you’re not hurting anybody. It also gets a bit more boring for me because I have absolutely no idea what they’re saying throughout the prayers so I just kind of sit there quiet and waiting.
The past few years however I have been missing more and more novenas. Why? Because I’ve got soccer and hockey, my religions.
Well that’s our tradition. Hope you understood it.
Bye Bye now.