Jesus is Born (by: Gemma Becker)
This Christmas was the first Christmas I can remember not spending in Minnesota. It was good to get a new perspective but also hard to see a culture where Christmas is not highly looked forward too and celebrated by everyone. For example, the store was open on Christmas Day and I doubt some people even knew it was Christmas, both facts that astonished me. This year instead of only celebrating as a family, we hosted a Christmas program for about 55 poor kids who might not have had any other party to look forward to. Every single family that we invited came. To be truthful, this makes me a little sad because when we invite them to Mass or something at the church the turn out is much, much worse. Sometimes their excuse for not coming is that it is too far to walk, but if they can walk miles to our house with all their kids to get some food and Christmas gifts then they can certainly walk miles to go to mass, a far greater gift than we could ever give them. Even so, I was glad they came