{"id":31548,"date":"2025-12-23T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/?p=31548"},"modified":"2025-12-22T14:44:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:44:32","slug":"noche-buena-significado-navidad-tradiciones-navidenas-diciembre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/es\/2025\/12\/23\/noche-buena-significance-christmas-holiday-traditions-december\/","title":{"rendered":"De Noche Buena a Wigilia: c\u00f3mo las familias inmigrantes se apoyan en la fe en Nochebuena"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69d2e809dafff\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"false\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div class=\"row-bg viewport-desktop\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col left_padding_desktop_3pct top_padding_desktop_0pct right_padding_desktop_3pct bottom_padding_desktop_0pct \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<p>Holiday preparations typically begin a week early for Bolivian native Sofia Rhodes.<\/p>\n<p>Her family spends each day baking a variety of pastries, including a Christmas wreath made with apples, raisins and cinnamon. The preparations lead up to Christmas Eve on Dec. 24 \u2014 known as Noche Buena, or the \u201cgood night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For some immigrants like Rhodes, Noche Buena is the most important night of the Christmas season for Catholics as they honor Christ\u2019s birth and preserve religious roots with festive meals, music and Mass.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69d2e809dc90a\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row vc_row-o-equal-height vc_row-flex vc_row-o-content-middle large top_margin_20px bottom_margin_20px\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"true\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div class=\"row-bg viewport-desktop\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row-bg-overlay row-bg-layer\" style=\"background: ##FFFFFF; background: linear-gradient(90deg,##FFFFFF 0%,##FFFFFF 100%);  opacity: 1; \"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col padding-3-percent force-phone-text-align-center inherit_tablet inherit_phone border_top_desktop_1px border_bottom_desktop_1px border_color_000000 border_style_solid \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"fws_69d2e809dd1b7\" data-midnight=\"\" data-column-margin=\"default\" class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row inner_row vc_row-o-equal-height vc_row-flex vc_row-o-content-middle\"  style=\"\"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\"> <div class=\"row-bg\" ><\/div> <\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12_inner col span_12  left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-7 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col child_column no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"   data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<h3 id=\"news-that-puts-power-under-the-spotlight-and-communities-at-the-center\"><strong>News that puts power under the spotlight and communities at the center.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Sign up for our free newsletter and get updates twice a week. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div style=\"margin-top: -20px; \" class=\"vc_col-sm-5 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col child_column neg-marg no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"   data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"wpb_raw_code wpb_raw_html wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"_form_1\"><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.bluelena.io\/f\/embed.php?id=1\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<p>Noche Buena is the final night of Las Posadas \u2014 a nine-day symbolic preparation typically celebrated by Latin American communities for Christ\u2019s birth. The tradition involves caroling, prayers at host homes, festive meals, and music. Las Posadas reenact Mary and Joseph\u2019s search for lodging just before Christ\u2019s birth.<\/p>\n<p>The last posada on Dec. 24, Noche Buena, can take place at Mass and officially marks the start of the Christmas season. This involves the final reenactment of Christ\u2019s birth. Families exchange gifts and typically have a fiesta, or party, with food and music.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Matovina, a professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, says Noche Buena is the \u201cmost sacred way to build a home for Christ to be born anew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Experts like Matovina say the holiday holds even more relevance than Christmas Day itself. It reminds some Latino, Filipino and European communities of the support system they have in friends and family, especially during times of hardship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere [are] difficult things that you have to face, and yet you never have to face them alone,\u201d Matovina says.<\/p>\n<p>Rhodes said her family typically came together for church at 10 p.m. and later ate dinner \u2014 Picana Navide\u00f1a, a slow-cooked Bolivian soup with various meats, vegetables, corn, potatoes, carrots and seasoning. For dessert, they would eat bu\u00f1uelos \u2014 fried dough, sometimes coated in cinnamon and served with sugarcane honey.<\/p>\n<p>But Latino communities are not alone in embracing Christmas Eve celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Polish communities host Wigilia, a Christmas Eve celebration in \u201canticipation of the Christ-child\u2019s arrival,\u201d according to Beata Pawlikowska, a tour guide at the Polish Museum of America in Chicago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69d2e809df11a\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; 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The family shares an oplatek, a Christmas wafer, before sitting down to eat a dinner with 12 meatless dishes to commemorate the 12 apostles.<\/p>\n<p>They attend midnight Mass after dinner and open gifts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my family, it was always celebrated with great care and love shown to tradition,\u201d Pawlikowska said. \u201cWhen everyone else already is bored with Christmas, we\u2019re just getting into the swing of things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, in Catholic Filipino communities, Noche Buena celebrations are particularly significant, marking a time to be present with loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>Families play games, sing songs and feast, according to James Zarsadiaz, director of the Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program and associate professor of history at the University of San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>The essence of Noche Buena, Zarsadiaz said, is unity and love.<\/p>\n<p>For Rhodes, it\u2019s a reminder that she can become whoever she wants to be in the following year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, it was about the rebirth of love, that something new was born for the next year,\u201d she said. \u201cYou can be born again into the person you want to become.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Tara Mobasher is Borderless Magazine\u2019s newsletter writer and reporter. 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