Posada - Making room for Jesus this Christmas

 

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.

 Modern day Posada uses nativity figures of Mary and Joseph who travel from place to place. This gives each ‘host’ the chance to create their own celebration in their home or place in the community, worshipping and reaching out to their communities with the real message of Christmas, making room for Jesus in their lives.

 
Our Benefice has chosen to engage with Posada this year. Will you get be a host to Mary and Joseph for a night? Their journey begins on the first day of Advent - Sunday 29th November.

 What is involved?

 
All you need to do is add your name to the Journey Rota by contacting Harriet on MAWVoffice@btinternet.com for a night that will suit you to ‘host’ Mary & Joseph. Another person from our community will make arrangements to bring the figures to your place at a time to suit both of you.
 
For the evening you ‘host’ Mary & Joseph you can choose to do what ever you like. Why not invite friends and family to sing carols and to talk about the meaning of Christmas? Or just place them where you can see them so you are able to focus for a moment on the Nativity. After all – Christmas begins with the Nativity!
 
The next day you need to take Mary & Joseph to the next host on the Journey Rota. You might like to place a small surprise note or gift in Mary and Joseph’s travel box, for their next Posada hosts.

It’s as simple as that.
 
We hope you will enjoy taking part.

Harriet, Emily, Sue and Alan