Christmas

- Patrick Regis Caidic

Every Christmas Filipino family gathers in one home and share blessings. We grew up in the way that we eat Noche Buena together every Christmas Eve and giving gifts at 12 midnight 24. We share money and playing games and having exchange gifts for fun.We buy Christmas lights and parols to make our home colorful and bright, children sings and carols in each and every house.

Simbang-gabi is very attractive to some teens cause they elders said that if you have completed the simbang-gabi, your wish will come true. But some of the teenagers today only goes for simbang-gabi but not listening but rather playing with some friends and they feel like their cool ‘cause they’re attending simbang-gabi. They forgot the real essence of hearing the Holy mass.

Filipino family always celebrates Christmas inside their homes, because Filipino family has a tight family bonding so we prefer to celebrate Christmas inside our homes.

And last but not the least, the preparation of the Christmas tree. Filipinos prepare Christmas trees by family decorating it and having fun and after that a beautiful and happy tree was made