On the Journey!

43 children and adults joined in the St. Stephen’s Sunday School’s enactment of Las Posadas on December 4, 2011.  Las Posadas (literally, “the inns”)  is a Mexican tradition in which participants join Mary and Joseph in the journey of Jesus’ birth.  The hope of Las Posadas is for participants to experience what it might have been like to have been Mary and Joseph as they wandered, looking for a place to stay, and to experience their feelings as they came to understand how unique and amazing Jesus’ birth was.

 After equipping ourselves with our individual travelling bags, donning nativity costumes, and learning our travelling song “Soon and Very Soon,” we made our pilgrimage through the 9 stations (1 station for each month of Mary’s pregnancy) set-up throughout the building, each one telling a part of the story of Jesus’ birth.  There were  different activities at each station, including making angels, learning the Magnificat (Mary’s song of praise), getting a donkey for the journey, knocking on the doors of inns, making take-home nativity scenes, singing songs, finding stars, and smelling incense.  Our journey culminated with a gift – just as the Magi brought gifts to  Jesus – for each child.  By journey’s end, we had many souvenirs for our travelling bags. 

Posted by Meghan T. Sweeney, Christian Education Coordinator

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