The date of the Catholic Christmas is always unchanged - December 25. Every year, parishioners of the Roman Catholic and many other churches celebrate the great holiday for all Christians - the birthday of Jesus Christ. The citizens of Catholic countries a month before Christmas is filled with mass festivities and festive corporate parties, but the holiday itself is celebrated in a narrow family circle. Close and distant relatives gather together, the table breaks from tasty treats, in the living room there is a Christmas tree and everyone presents gifts to each other. And on Christmas, something magical is always happening - that's why this holiday is so loved by children.
Catholic Christmas in 2015
Holiday this year falls on Thursday. In non-Catholic countries, this will be a normal working day, in Catholic - the day off. As always, the holiday will be preceded by the four Sundays of Advent (November 30, 6,13 and December 20) - this is the time of preparation for Christmas. December 24 (Christmas Eve) - fasting day, in which you need to refrain from animal food. The stricter you will observe fasting on Christmas Eve, the more luxuriously the dishes of the upcoming festive table will appear.
Dishes for Catholic Christmas - a recipe with a photo
Christmas dinner is arranged on 25 December. A traditional dish - a baked goose is always served on the table. And many other delicious dishes, the more the better, because it is believed that the more abundant the table is that day, the more prosperous the whole next year will be.
The Christmas goose is stuffed with prunes, potatoes, rice, buckwheat. Classics is a goose stuffed with apples. Apples should be sour, then they will give the meat a soft and piquant fruit flavor. Here is an easy recipe for Christmas goose with apples:
- Remove from the carcass hemp from the feathers, poddevaya their usual sewing needle. Carcase wash and dry.
- Lightly rub with salt and grated garlic from inside and out.
- Apples cut into large slices, remove the core.
- Fill the carcass with apples.
- Goose wrapped in food foil, you can in two layers. Leave for 2-3 hours, so that the bird is soaked with the aroma of spices and fruits.
- Put the goose in foil on a baking sheet or large frying pan and put in a hot oven. The time of baking is as follows: for every 1 kg of meat - 45 minutes.
- When the time is up, push the baking tray, cut the foil from above and spread its edges as much as possible. Bake the meat until the crust is formed, watering with the juice that has been isolated - this will take another 20 minutes.
Catholic Christmas - congratulations
Stock up with poetic congratulations, because in this holiday you have to sign with a dozen cards. You can write several by yourself. Do not be afraid that rhyme will be awkward, and the size is wrong - anyway your "masterpiece" will look very nice:
The golden lights of the lanterns are sprinkled into snowy silver. Today in the courtyard is the Catholic Christmas. Christmas tree and the smell of vanilla, Goose in apples and tangerines, Gifts for all and for all And the bell for children is a laugh.
