Essays

Christmas is the main feast of the Christians. It is celebrated on the 25th of December each year. Christmas commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ. On the night before Christmas, Christians go to church in large numbers for the Midnight Mass. Everyone person wears new clothes that day. Along with special prayers, Christmas carols are sung. After the church ceremony they greet each other happily and return home.

The next day on Christmas day they wear new clothes and eat special delicacies at each meal. They distribute cake and cookies to their neighbors and friends. They welcome guests who visit them with cake and wine on this day and

night through the following week.

A common sight seen during this season of festivity are a crib at each house, decorated Christmas trees laden with gifts, stars outside houses and Santa Clause distributing sweets the entrances of shops, it is free to go window shopping during this season to see the elaborately decorated shop-fronts to attract customers to do Christmas shopping. Christmas is really a secular feast as people of all faiths join in this festival of peace.