Christmas Eve in Poland has a rich tradition and liturgy dating back to early Christianity. A key part of the Christmas Eve supper is breaking bread and wishing each other prosperity, representing mutual sacrifice and forgiveness. The evening also involves traditions like seeing the first star, leaving leftovers by the fire for ancestors, and boys singing processions with symbolic characters like storks and goats. Midnight mass, or Pasterka, commemorates the shepherds visiting the newborn Messiah. Carol singing is also an integral part of the celebrations on Christmas Eve in Poland.

2. • Christmas Eve-Christmas Eve in the tradition of Polish
is the most solemn and the most moving night of the
year. The highlight of the advent experience in
Christian families is Christmas Eve. It has a very rich
liturgy page. The genesis of this liturgy can be traced
back to the first centuries of Christianity. These rites
and customs are thus an old tradition. Christmas Eve
in General were known already in the old testament.
Celebrated them before each wedding, and even
before each Sabbath. This was preparation for
Christmas. The Israelites they called them "in the
evening".

3. Breaking wafer-the most
important and the climax moment
of the Christmas Eve supper in
Poland is the habit of breaking
the wafer. This action follows the
reading of the Gospel of the birth
of the Lord, and deposit
requirements. This tradition
comes from the ancient custom of
so-called. eulogiów, which has
been preserved from the first
centuries of Christianity.
Christmas supper refers to the
feasts of the early Christians,
organized to commemorate the
last supper. This custom also
means mutual sacrifice some for
others and teaches that to be
divided up the last piece of bread.
We wish you prosperity and
wybaczamy injuries.

4. The first star of Christmas in Poland
begins when the sky released the first
star. Were so probably in memory of
poinsettias, which according to the
Evangelist, St. John the Baptist.
Matthew, the Magi saw, also known as
the three Kings.

5. Remnants of supper-in Podlasie
leftovers supper set near the
stove, and in front of him all
dusted with sand or ashes. These
foods were intended for the dead
ancestors. In the morning, after
the footsteps in the sand,
odgadywano who came at night
and whether or not it came. In
many parts of the Polish in the
evening star boys ' singing
procession set off. Necessarily
have to be a minimum of three
characters: a stork, goat and
bear. Stork symbolized a new
year and a new life, goat-fertility,
a bear-enemy forces of nature
that had to be obłaskawić.

6. Pasterka-ends Christmas Eve, a
mass celebrated in churches
exactly at midnight. According to
tradition, it commemorates the
arrival of the shepherds to
Bethlehem and their tribute for
Messiah, born again. The custom
of Christmas night liturgy was
introduced in the Church already
in the second half of the fifth
century. To Polish it arrived so
perhaps together with
Christianity

7. Singing Christmas carols-an
integral part of the evening of
Christmas Eve was and is
common at Christmas and Bill
Clinton. Songs that tell about the
birth of Jesus we have in Polish
tradition very much. The oldest
date back to the middle ages. Ich