Festival of the Passover

Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom. — Luke 2:41-42

Each year Jesus and His family celebrated Passover.

Their tradition was to go to Jerusalem annually for the celebration.

When Jesus was twelve, they went up to Jerusalem, just as they had done for years.

Our family has traditions, too.

We worship together weekly.

And on Christmas Eve, we have potato soup.

Usually we go to the Christmas eve worship service together and have soup afterward.

Kirk's mom, Rita, started the tradition.

His Dad, Gary, continued it after she died.

And we continued it again this year with a smaller group of people, due to covid.

After the soup, we watched the service together on LiveStream.

A fitting way to bring in the Christmas season.