Las Posadas 2009

These figures were made in Bethlehem and were gifted to Catterline Community Church by Marjorie Gourlay whom is being sponsored by the church to work in Palestine as part of the Palestinian/Jewish reconciliation project.

In the days leading up to Christmas, the figures will be travelling around Catterline in a journey called Las Posadas (The Inns). This is a Mexican custom where the Nativity figurines are passed from home to home within a community to remember the journey that Mary and Joseph made to get to Bethlehem where Jesus was born. Each receiving family welcomes the giving family into their home, offers them some hospitality and places the figurines into their Nativity scene for the night. The following evening, the figurines are passed on to another family in the village.

If you would like to learn more about this and host Mary and Joseph for a day, please contact Chris or Steph on 750297.