Christmas in El Salvador is celebrated to commemorate the birth of baby Jesus. The majority of the country’s religion is Roman Catholic. The church plays an important part for El Salvador in the holidays. On Christmas Eve, they go to Misa de Galo “Rooster’s Mass” in Spanish. The families there have fun going to the special event in church.
Posadas are one of the most traditional events in Mexico, celebrated from the days 16th to the 24th of December by young and older people. Posadas are reunions in where people gather together to represent Mary and Joseph’s cold and difficult journey to Nazareth. This bunch of people divides themselves into two groups, and celebrates the religious part at the beginning. They carry Marys and josephs image, while holding little candles and singing melodious song begging for shelter. The first group stays outside the neighbor’s house until the second group that is inside recognizes its Mary and Joseph.
Kayna Sollars Stallings English2 May 2, 2013 Rough Draft You may have heard of an American legend widely known as the “King” of Rock ‘n Roll, Elvis Presley. Elvis Aaron Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi January 8, 1935. He was born to a poor family following the stillborn birth of his twin brother Jesse Garon Presley. Elvis’s family went to the Assembly of God Church and sang in the choir. When he was ten years old Elvis sang in front of several hundred people at the annual Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show and won a prize for singing Old Shep for a contest sponsored by a local radio- station.
Yet ironically and almost prophetically, when Selena was asked about her future during a July 1994 interview, she stated, “I just hope still to be alive, hopefully singing still and later on, maybe 10 years yonder, I hope to have a family by then.” In early 1995, the Quintanilla’s discovered that Saldívar was stealing money from the fan club, and decided to fire her. Three weeks after the fallout, Selena agreed to meet Saldívar in a Days Inn hotel in Corpus Christi, on the morning of March 31, 1995, to retrieve paperwork for tax purposes. At 11:49 am, Saldívar drew a gun from her purse, pointing it at Selena. As the singer turned and left the room, Saldívar shot her once in her right shoulder, severing an artery. Selena ran towards the lobby to get help.
In the sixth grade, when I was eleven years old, every Sunday my mother started taking my sister and me to Holy Name Catholic Church. There, after a couple of months, we had our first holy communion. I hardly paid any attention to the study. I remember my mom told me, “If you stop attending church for your confirmation
It is a day for family to gather and remember all the loved ones that have passed away. It is also a national holiday in Mexico. Ricky also celebrates Christmas on Three Kings Day. 6. What do you like best about your
The festival celebrates the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to a changed Christian Indian. Then you have the celebration 9 days before Christmas called “Las Posadas” which honors the arrival of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem. Mexican Americans celebrate these days with their family members or with strangers. They
Our family is all dressed up, and I can smell the evening’s food rooms away and hear the ending sounds of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade on the TV downstairs. We seem like a classic, cookie-cutter family. And then the holiday really begins. My grandma is usually the first to arrive, complete with her leopard-print duffle bag she carried everywhere with her. After her I hear the front door open again and know that, from this point on, the house won’t have another moment of silence.
Amish weddings are traditionally held on Tuesdays and Thursdays in late fall, after the final autumn harvest. A couple's engagement is usually kept secret until just a few weeks before the wedding when their intentions are "published" in church. The weddings usually take place at the home of the bride's parents with a lengthy ceremony, followed by a huge feast for the invited guests. The bride typically makes a new dress for the wedding, which will then serve as her "good" dress for formal occasions after the wedding. Blue is the typical wedding dress color.
Traditionally it is the last day that people can indulge before their period of penance or Lent. During Mardi Gras, or carnival, the partiers would eat all the meat, eggs milk and cheese to prepare for the fasting of lent. The festivity incorporates the roots of Louisianans, European, African and Caribbean decent. The carnival itself involves different costumes and that are playful, comical, satirical, grotesque, theatrical, and serious. All of the different displays come together to form a very unique holiday celebration.