Textos De Celebraciones En Ingles

halloween
Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of "All Hallows' Evening"),[5] also known as All Hallows' Eve,[6] is a yearly celebration observed in a number of countries on October 31, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows (or All Saints) and the day initiating the triduum of Hallowmas.
According to many scholars, it is a Christianised feast originally influenced by westernEuropean harvest festivals, [7] and festivals of the dead with possible pagan roots, particularly the Celtic Samhain.[6][8][9] Others maintain that it originated independently of Samhain and has Christian roots.[10]
Typical festive Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (also known as "guising"), attending costume parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, applebobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.
Accion de gracias
The Thanksgiving Day (in English, Thanksgiving Day, French, Jour de l'Action de grâce) is a traditional celebration of the United States and Canada. In the United States is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, although originally it was the last Thursday. In Canada,meanwhile, is celebrated on the second Monday of October. Generally during this holiday gather around a table with family and friends sharing a feast. Although religious in origin, is considered a secular holiday.
Most people in the United States celebrate this holiday with family gatherings in their homes where they prepare a feast. Is common in many homes offer a prayer of thanks. Thetraditional main course for dinner is a big roast turkey or baked. This turkey is traditionally served with a filling made cornbread and sage. It is traditionally served with jelly or cranberry sauce. Besides vegetable dishes are usually served as green beans (green beans, green beans), sweet potatoes (yams, sweet potato) and mashed potatoes with gravy, a gravy made from turkey, also often served a varietyof desserts , pumpkin pie being the most popular. It is also common to prepare the pecan pie and apple.
Navidad
Christmas (Latin: Nativitas, "birth")? is one of the most important holidays of Christianity, along with Easter and Pentecost. This feast, which commemorates the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, is celebrated on December 25 in the Catholic Church, in the Anglican Church, some Protestantcommunities and the Romanian Orthodox Church. Instead, it is celebrated on January 7 in other Orthodox churches, who did not accept the reforms made ​​to the Julian calendar to move to the Gregorian calendar called, a name derived from its reformer Pope Gregory XIII.

English speakers use the term Christmas, meaning 'Mass (mass) of Christ'. In some Germanic languages​​, such as German, thefestival is called Weihnachten, meaning 'blessed night'. The Christmas holidays are proposed, as the name suggests, celebrate the Nativity (ie birth) of Jesus of Nazareth.

There are several theories about how they came to celebrate Christmas on December 25, arising from various modes of inquiry, according to some known data, on what date Jesus would have been born.
Boxing day
Boxing Day istraditionally the day following Christmas Day, when servants and tradesmen would receive gifts from their superiors[1] or employers, known as a "Christmas box". Today, Boxing Day is better known as a bank or public holiday that occurs on 26 December, or the first or second weekday after Christmas Day, depending on national or regional laws. It is observed in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Australia,Canada, New Zealand and some other Commonwealth nations.
In South Africa, Boxing Day was renamed to Day of Goodwill in 1994. In Ireland it is recognised as St. Stephen's Day (Irish: Lá Fhéile Stiofáin) or the Day of the Wren (Irish: Lá an Dreoilín).
In many European countries, including notably Germany, Poland, Scandinavia and the Netherlands, 26 December is celebrated as the Second Christmas...