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Dreaming of a white Christmas? Forget it if you’re in Mexico in December!
123Christians offers information on Christmas in Mexico. The closest you’ll come to frosty is while sipping an icy Margarita.
Discover a delightful array of seasonal traditions that make Navidad in Mexico a unique and unforgettable experience.
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Festivities begin with Las Posadas, nine days of candlelit parades and parties starting December 16. In villages and urban neighborhoods, youngsters gather each afternoon to reenact the quest for lodging in Bethlehem. The procession is headed by a diminutive Virgen María, often perched on a live burro, led by an equally tiny San Jose. They are followed by other children portraying angels, the Santos Reyes (Three Kings), and a host of pastores y pastoras (shepherds and shepherdesses), all usually decked out in colorful handmade costumes and carrying brightly decorated báculos (walking staffs) or paper lanterns.
In the El Nacimiento (Nativity scene), the focal point is a stable where clay or plaster figurines of the Holy Family are sheltered. The forces of evil are represented by a serpent and a grotesque Lucifer lurking in the shadows. The figures may be simply positioned in a bed of heno (Spanish moss), or scattered throughout an elaborate landscape. Nowadays a decorated Christmas tree may be incorporated in the Nacimiento or set up elsewhere in the home. Holiday festivities terminate on Noche Buena (Christmas Eve) with the celebration of a late-night Missa de Gallo (Rooster’s Mass). Afterwards families head home for a traditional Christmas supper which may feature a simple fare of homemade tamales and corn gruel or other regional dishes. To know all about Christmas in Mexico 123Christians.
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