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The Holiday Season everybody has been waiting for in the Philippines

SM City Cebu  Time flies too fast indeed and it’s Christmas time once again, particularly in the Philippines. But what is really the essence of the Christmas Celebrations to us Catholics?   We’ve been celebrating Christmas from time immemorial and still there are these questions that still linger in our mind: Why do we celebrate Christmas? What embodies the Christmas celebrations?  Is it just a social - religious celebration in honor of the birth of our Saviour, Jesus Christ? And now that the COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted, how do Filipinos celebrate Christmas? Or do this year’s or future Christmas celebrations be the same as they were before the global health crisis?  In this post, we will try to find out how people, the Filipino Catholics in particular, celebrate Christmas after being confined to our homes due to COVID-19 restrictions?  In this post, we will try to find out how people, the Filipino Catholics in particular, celebrate Christmas now that our social life is bac