Important days: Part 2

December 16-24: The Season of Advent.

Many people in Mexico enjoy participating in the posadas i the days before Christmas. This is an old tradition, similar to Christmas carols in the United States. Posadas begin on December 16.

Each posada consists of a procession, which is usually led by a child carrying porcelain figures representing Mary and Joseph, and followed by family and friends outside a house. The posada is centered on the commemoration of the holy family and the havoc they went through to find a place where the Virgin Mary could give birth to the Child Jesus.

December 25th

In Mexico, as in many Latin American countries, the main Christmas celebration takes place on the nigth of December 24. Some families go to mass at nigth orbgather i  their homes to wait for the arrival of midnigth and the arrival of Christmas.