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Does your family celebrate Christmas as a secular or religious holiday?
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November 28, 2009 08:38 PM
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I guess I answered this question in answering the one about electricity. We celebrate Advent from tomorrow, the first Sunday in Advent, until the afternoon of Dec. 24th. From then untill Epiphany, we celebrate the 12 days of the liturgical season of Christmas, a religeous designation and Holyday(s) As an Earth Science teacher living in the northern hemisphere, I also LOVE to celebrate the Winter Solstice in the tradition of my Celtic ancestors. It's all about JOY!
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November 28, 2009 08:07 PM
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Collectively, my family celebrates it as a religious holiday: they're Catholic. But in my immediate family (mom, dad, 2 siblings and I), the children are atheist. So, we celebrate it secularly, but with tradition. More of a cultural thing now than religious.
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My parents were raised in two different sects of Christianity (and none too strictly), so when they had my sister and me, they decided not to impose a religion on us (in case their two sects confused us, and also because they weren't really devout anyway). So Christmas for us has always been a secular holiday, where we make a big breakfast, exchange presents around the tree, drink eggnog, and listen to Mannheim Steamroller or the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack.
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November 29, 2009 04:20 PM
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Me and my family has always been celebrating Christmas as a religious holiday. Our parents brought us up as Catholics and my husband and our family are devout Catholics. Here in the Philippines we usually celebrate it with mass. We have the "Simbang Gabi" or 9 consecutive dawn masses that will usually start at 4:30 am, that would be for 9 days before Christmas. And on Christmas Eve, we all attend the mass that usually start at 9:30 pm. After that we go home and have dinner together we call it "Noche Buena" followed giving of gifts and opening them.
Aside from attending mass, our family do some reflections together and sharing on why we celebrate Christmas. We share story about Jesus and his birth in Bethlehem. We want our children to know why it is important. We don't want them to be too overwhelmed by consumerism and commercialism of Christmas that they will lose touch on the real essence of it.
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Aside from attending mass, our family do some reflections together and sharing on why we celebrate Christmas. We share story about Jesus and his birth in Bethlehem. We want our children to know why it is important. We don't want them to be too overwhelmed by consumerism and commercialism of Christmas that they will lose touch on the real essence of it.
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December 02, 2009 02:23 AM
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