A Tradition for Your Eve of Christmas

We now have available the “Oplatk”” or “Christmas Wafers” for your use.  This is millennia old tradition that began in Poland, Slovakia and Lithuania.

At the Christmas Eve Meal one of the wafers or, a part of one, are placed on each person’s plate.  Before the meal a prayer is said and then beginning with the father and mother of the house, a Sign of Peace is exchanged in the same manner and the wish of a Happy Christmas.  Then each person, with wafer in hand, breaks off a part of the wafer from the other person and eats it.  This continues until each person has greeted and eaten a part of the wafer of everyone present. (Read more…)

Our Lady of Guadalupe

On Thursday December 12th, we will celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.  She is the patroness of the United States, Mexico and all of the Americas, as well as the protector of the unborn. She is a religious as well as a cultural figure to the people of Mexico.  In 1531, she appeared in a vision to a humble peasant farmer named Juan Diego near Mexico City.  The appearance of Our Lady of Guadalupe helped generate the conversion of Mexico and Latin America to Catholicism.  Her feast is celebrated with great joy and enthusiasm throughout the Americas. (Read more…)