More Christmas Caroling

Last week we wrote about a concert of Christmas carols that we attended downtown.  But over Christmas, we participated in Christmas caroling ourselves.

Singing in an apartment building stairway.  Photo courtesy of Simi Hosu.

 It is a tradition here in Romania to go to people's houses, to sing a carol or two and to be invited in to enjoy some Christmas treats.  In the past, carolers would go door to door, to neighbors, friends and even strangers.  Nowadays, however, they tend to just go to friends or relatives, but we had a lady and her two sons ring our bell on Christmas Eve and sing a song for us.  Nancy gave her some brownies she had on hand. 

We stopped at a church member's home and sang a couple of carols.  As we were leaving, her neighbors asked us to sing for them.  We were happy to do so.

On Christmas Day, we went with a few people from the church and sang carols at several homes.  We stopped at homes of people who were shut-ins, people from the church and friends of those caroling.  We sang, prayed and were offered treats everywhere we went.  We went only one night, but others joined the carolers and went to different homes other nights as well.
Merry Christmas!  Christ is born!  And he is coming again!