A posada is an old Mexican tradition where children dressed as Mary and Joseph travel around the parish, sharing the journey with as many people as possible before arriving in church on Christmas Eve.
Obviously we can’t use children nowadays but we are using small models of Mary and Joseph and the donkey to travel from house to house in the parish. Each person looks after the three travellers for a day before taking them to the next person. There is a prayer which is said at each house, usually with a coffee and mince pie.
Hopefully Mary, Joseph and the donkey arrive back in church safe and sound on Christmas Eve to join models of the other characters, after sharing the Christmas message around many houses and families in the parish.
