Christmas traditions and traditional Christmas

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Singing carols and midnight mass seem to be two cherished Christmas traditions of the past. Can you recall other traditions that you and your family practiced in the past? Do you still practice them?
 
Every Christmas Eve, we give each other new pjs and a new ornament to put on the tree. The ornament we receive always has something to do either with our personalities, jobs or interests, or they relate to a big event during the year.
Every Christmas day after dinner, we watch “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
 
Things have changed since my family has grown but watching It’s a Wonderful Life is always part of Christmas.
 
Our family loves getting little gifts in our stockings. Every Christmas morning, we sit in front of the fireplace with a fire going, and open our little gifts. The one tradition that cannot be missed is my husband buys each of our kids 2 cans of Pringle’s. I don’t know how it got started, but it’s been going on a long time. It’s the one thing that can’t be skipped.

The funny part is that we rarely buy them any other time of the year.
 
Irishmom2 said:
Every Christmas morning, we sit in front of the fireplace with a fire going, and open our little gifts.
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That sounds so wonderful to me. We have kept up the silly tradition of getting the kids each a token water pistol for Christmas and having water pistol fights out the back after lunch. A little way to cooling off in the tropics.
 
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Nativity/Christmas Eve my late mother and I would have peanut butter, jelly, crackers and tea for breakfast. For Holy Supper we had shrimp, a vegetable and tea. Then I’d go to church for Great Compline with Litiya, Divine Liturgy and myrovania. On the Feast Mom and I would go together for Divine Liturgy and myrovania. Then we’d come home and have ham, kielbasa, veggies, crescent rolls, nut roll and dessert. We’d sing Ukrainian Nativity/Christmas carols on the way home, especially (Nebo I Zemlya / Heaven and Earth).

Dec. 26 we’d go to church for the Blessed Mother’s feast day (Synaxis of the Mother of God) and Dec. 27 we’d go for the Feast of St. Stephen.

Now that Mom’s gone I don’t know what to do for Holy Supper since it’s just me. My sister and her family travel over Christmas and my brother is 400 miles away. My priest said to set up an extra place for Mom since that’s our Ukrainian tradition (you always set an extra place for the deceased at the table). I’ll do that but it’s not the same.

I really need prayers so please pray for me (this is my first one without Mom). Thank you!
 
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Margaret_Ann said:
I really need prayers so please pray for me (this is my first one without Mom). Thank you!
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I’m so sorry for your loss, and I pray that this Christmas as you honor the Lord’s birthday without your mom on this earth, you will have many happy memories of all the wonderful times the two of you spent together.

Is there any possibility that a lonely older woman would enjoy spending some of the Christmas holiday with you?
 
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One of our customers invited me to her home for Christmas Day but Nativity/Christmas Eve is the stickler. I have no one to eat Holy Supper with.
 
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