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The Saint Dominic Chapel Girls’ Choir is pleased to present More Traditions of Christmas as an encore to their previous recording: The Traditions of Christmas. The choir’s characteristic devotion to sacred music in its varied forms reveals itself in the clarity and purity of these young ladies’ voices. All nineteen members blend into one voice and one heart as they sing the season’s praises of our Infant Saviour and His most holy mother. Special thanks are due The Reverend Francisco Radecki for generously giving his time and his expertise to the recording of this CD; and to Mr. Craig Toth for kindly applying his erudition to enhance the CD with an accompanying booklet featuring historical notes and commentary on each selection. Also deserving of thanks is Sister Mary Gabriel de Montfort, O.P., for her untiring service as choir directress and organist.

More Traditions of Christmas

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The modern Norwegian-American Christmas is a warm and regenerative family holiday for millions of Americans whose ancestors came from Norway — celebrated with family feasts of lutefisk, lefse, rommegrot, rull, and fruit soup, observed in homes where trees are decorated with straw ornaments, flags, and heart-shaped baskets. It is the time to carry on customs whose origins have been lost in the past. This book brings home the stories of Christmas customs in both countries. Norwegian immigrants carried with them the folk traditions, developed over centuries, that shaped their identities, and they held those practices especially dear at Christmas time, remembering family members left behind. But in the U.S., they and their descendants met the newly evolving traditions of the highly commercial American Christmas, a powerful homogenising force in a nation of immigrants. And the celebration of Christmas in Norway continued to evolve as well, as the holiday — influenced in the twentieth century by U.S. practices — became more child-centred and more commercial. Stokker describes and traces the development of folkways on both sides of the ocean, from their origins to their practice today. With fascinating details, with scores of accounts of ancient and modern Christmases, with recipes and photographs, this book reminds Norwegians and Norwegian Americans of their connections to each other and explains how their celebrations differ on this most joyous of holidays.

Keeping Christmas: Yuletide Traditions In Norway And The New Land

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Learn the customs and traditions of Christmas in Germany through a bilingual story while enjoying the season’s favorite songs. This beautifully illustrated 32 page hardcover book comes with an audio CD, including the narration in German and 15 songs to sing along and enjoy.

Frohliche Weihnachten: Learning Songs & Traditions in German Book & Audio CD

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A colour illustrated survey of collectables and antiques associated with Christmas which also describes the pagan and Christian historical backgrounds of the festival.

Christmas Antiques, Decorations and Traditions

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Learn the customs and traditions of Christmas in Germany through a bilingual story while enjoying the season’s favorite songs. This beautifully illustrated 32 page hardcover book comes with an audio CD, including the narration in German and 15 songs to sing along and enjoy.

Frohliche Weihnachten: Learning Songs & Traditions in German Book & Audio CD

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Learn the customs and traditions of Christmas in Mexico through a bilingual story while enjoying the season’s favorite songs. This beautifully illustrated 32 page hardcover book comes with an audio CD, including the narration in Spanish and 20 songs to sing along and enjoy.

Feliz Navidad: Learning Songs and Traditions in Spanish

The song “Santa Claus is coming to town” constantly makes my children reminded to be on their best manners or else Santa might just pass them by on Christmas Eve without any presents. There are a lot of ways to encourage children to slow down and behave, but none fairly as believable as hearing part of a song, “He knows if you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake”.

Like most children, my kids are no different when it comes to hoping and wishing for the grand day and all the mystery and wonder that Christmas brings. They want to beautify our home with Christmas lights and collectibles, and each one constantly always has their preference. The very first thing that my son sought after to exhibit was the Nativity scene that he had completed at school when he was still seven years old. His teacher at church gave twenty Popsicle sticks to every child, but five had been divided in half. His class attached the sticks collectively in the form of a house, with the cut sticks used at the sides. It was finished much like Lincoln logs were planned, and a small miniature of Joseph, Mary and baby Jesus attached at the bottom. It made an attractive showpiece on top of the television with one or two red candle votives on every side.

Our next ornament to create was the Christmas candles in the windowsills, with a dynamic Santa and Mrs. Claus. A fresh custom that started with our youngest son by adding up lighted Christmas wreaths in every window. Of course, my much loved ornament was a huge Christmas door wreath with a gold angel in the center and gold leaves and berries outside of it.

Our supreme family custom was going away to their aunt and uncle’s house for the ceremonial dinner and exchanging of presents. As they grew up, they grow to be part of the setting up and carrying out the particulars of entertainment. One of the children would take part in Christmas carols and they would guide the adults with their singing. Another cousin would browse online to see precisely where Santa was on the radar and which direction he was going to. The younger kids would get so thrilled hearing those information.

Unwrapping gifts, after having a Christmas Eve dinner with family, was the final end to our family gathering. The kids were always enchanted in getting a custom-made decoration and something exceptional for their talents or fascination. By the time we were over and done with opening the gifts, the radar illustrates Santa was getting closer and closer, which meant it was finally time to go home and get all set for bed.

The concluding practice we adhere to on Christmas Eve was reading the book entitled “Night before Christmas”. The kids would change into their pajamas and set off to bed, waiting to hear the noise of reindeers on the roof. They would get so keyed up when they hear the jingle bells chime outside. That was always their hint to close their eyes and start to dream of what was about to arrive. Customs are fantastic because they let kids know what to look forward to. Our kids now have their own families and customs, but a lot of that they grew up are still living at present in their homes. Angels with halo, Christmas lights, family and Santa Claus are part of the way of life that many families commemorate and are what makes Christmas so much fun.

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The fascinating stories and origins behind Christmas traditions such as the colors of red and green, the Christmas tree, caroling, nativity scenes, the Yule log, gift-giving, stockings, advent wreaths, mistletoe, and holly.

Stories Behind the Great Traditions of Christmas

The Birth of Christmas Traditions

Throughout history, Christmas has been celebrated by different cultures in diverse ways. In ancient Babylon and Egypt, there were mid-winter festivals that honored the ancient gods. The Romans celebrated Saturnalia, a festival dedicated to Saturn, the god of peace and plenty. During this festival, which ran from December 17th to December 24th, public gathering places were decorated with flowers and gifts and candies were exchanged amongst slaves and masters. In Scandinavia, a period of celebration known as Yule was held each winter at the end of the growing season. During this time, the population feasted on the summer’s bounty. The Celtic culture of the British Isles revered all green plants as symbols of fertility and contributed celebrations revolving around the decoration of homes with mistletoe and holly. New Christmas customs appeared in the Middle Ages. The most prominent of these was the carol. By the 14th Century, such Christmas songs had become associated with the religious observance of the birth of Christ. In Italy, a tradition developed of re-enacting the birth of Christ and the construction of nativity scenes. The tradition of celebrating Christmas by decorating an indoor tree was established by Queen Victoria of England, while the author Charles Dickens popularized the idea of having a Christmas feast through his writing.

Modern Customs Christmas Photos and e-Cards

There are also many Christmas traditions that have developed in modern times. The modern American conception of Santa Claus as a secular figure was created by the writer Clement Moore in his poem, A Visit from St. Nicholas. The commercialization of Christmas started to take place around World War II when people had to shop far in advance to get gifts to soldiers overseas in time for the holiday. Thus, the extended Christmas shopping season was born. An even more modern tradition is sending Christmas e-Cards with Christmas photos of the family. This is a great way to reach out and communicate with friends about the changes in your family and spread holiday cheer from everyone. Some families even put humorous touches on the Christmas photos by dressing the family dog up in antlers!

The Latest Christmas Tradition Ringtones Era

By far the most recent Christmas tradition is downloading Christmas ringtones to a cell phone. Whether you’re downloading a classic carol like “Deck the Halls” sung by The Platters or a more contemporary, funky piece like James Brown’s “Funky Christmas Millennium” you can’t help but feel festive every time you hear Christmas ringtones on your cell phone. Having Christmas ringtones on your cell phone is also a good reminder that you have a long Christmas list and need to get out there shopping. It’s also a great way to spread the spirit of the season amongst friends and co-workers and let them know that you are no Grinch!

Whatever Christmas traditions you choose to embrace, you can be content in the knowledge that each has a distinctive history and a special meaning to many people.

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christmas recipes, Christmas Traditions, family tradition, holiday recipe, holiday traditions, homemade candy Making new Christmas traditions is a valuable way to cope with the first Christmas after the death of a loved one, or yif ou’ve just married into a new family. Creating new family traditions is also a good way to stay healthy at Christmas.

New Christmas Traditions: Christmas Volunteering

Volunteering at Christmas is an excellent new family tradition at Christmas. Investigate the “traditional” Christmas volunteering ideas: food banks, Meals on Wheels, Christmas hampers, etc. Consider making Christmas volunteering a less traditional holiday tradition, such as making simple Christmas stockings with your family and delivering them to street kids or a youth shelter. A new Christmas family tradition could include visiting sick kids in the hospital or donating toys, books or needed items to the Ronald McDonald House or a women’s shelter. Always call first. Christmas volunteering makes you feel good about yourself and your family – even if you’re grieving a death at Christmas.

New Christmas Traditions: Christmas Recipes

Creating Christmas traditions should ways involve food! Spend time with your kids, partner, parents or loved ones in the kitchen, baking Christmas cookies or decorating gingerbread houses. Pick a holiday recipe that you only make at Christmas – perhaps homemade candy canes will be your new holiday tradition – and invite friends and family to help make them.

New Christmas Traditions: Christmas Ornaments

New family traditions include making different Christmas ornaments from scratch every year, such as popsicle stick picture frames or popcorn wreaths. Christmas ornaments can become holiday traditions even if you add a new variation each year. For instance, put new family photos in Christmasy picture frames; every year, line them up on the mantle or bookcase. If you don’t have time to make Christmas ornaments but like this idea of creating new Christmas traditions, consider purchasing instead of making a new ornament every year.

New Christmas Traditions: Christmas Stories

Make your family story a new tradition at Christmas. Keep copies of your annual family Christmas card or letter, and read them out loud each Christmas. Or, read squo;Twas the Night Before Christmas or e Best Christmas Pageant Ever out loud to your kids the night or week before Christmas. Holiday traditions are about you as a unique family, warts and all. Sometimes new Christmas traditions start by accident and continue unattended; other times, you have to deliberately implement your new Christmas traditions. Either way, holiday traditions are a reassuring, fun, and healthy way to celebrate Christmas.