Posada 2015

What is POSADA?

Posada is an old Mexican tradition where young people dressed as Mary and Joseph travelled from house to house asking for a room for the night and telling people about the imminent arrival of Jesus in the weeks leading up to Christmas. On Christmas Eve they would visit the local church to re-enact the nativity and place figures of Mary and Joseph in a crib.

Posada is Spanish for "lodging", or "accommodation and traditionally the Mexican festival would last for nine days representing the nine months of pregnancy, specifically the pregnancy of Mary carrying Jesus.

In the UK a more recent tradition is to send out the figures of Mary and Joseph on an Advent journey around a parish leading up to Christmas. The figures travel from home to home staying overnight before moving onwards in their journey. Whilst the figures are in your home, it is an opportunity to pray with them,  quietly reflect on the wonder of that first Christmas or simply to have them as a quiet presence as you go about your life.

So far Mary and Joseph have visited:

Justin and the Nosakhare household

Reverend Karen and Mark Colley

  

Then they had a rest at the Digmans.

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