Merry Christmas

Christmas Day is Dec. 25, when it commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem as the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. After the Easter Resurrection is the most important holiday of the year the church.
Once incorporated these elements, the Church added later in the Middle Ages birth and carols with their customs. Around this time the banquet were the climax of the celebrations. All this took an abrupt end in Britain when, in 1552, the Puritans banned Christmas. Although Christmas returned to England in 1660 with Charles II, the rituals disappeared until Victorian times.


Some traditions are kept like:
The Dinner of Christmas, consists of a banquet to midnight, of honor of Christ's birth
The Christmas mangers, Mangers or the Christmas Birth consist of the representation of Jesus' birth, by means of a model of Bethlehem and his environment, of the fact that the principal figures are the stable ones where Jesus was born, the Sacred Family, the animals and the shepherds
The Christmas carols songs or allusive singings to Christ's birth or to the Sacred Family. Some of them ace Night of Peace have versions in several languages with same or different name.
Today, Christmas is a time of great commercial activity and exchange of gifts, meetings and lunches Families. In the West celebrated the Mass of the rooster in churches and cathedrals. In Latin America, rooted in Catholic tradition, especially the celebrated Christmas Eve (December 24) with a family dinner to be prepared for a variety of dishes, desserts and traditional beverages. It is also customary to attend the Mass and celebrating the megrim with rockets and fireworks.