Christmas Traditions

Monica wrote beautifully about a Christmas tradition involving a wafer called Oplatek.

Reading this essay really moved me. While I enjoy giving and receiving gifts during Christmas, the most rewarding bit of Christmas for me this year was showing my appreciation to a person who is in some ways at the periphery of my life. I stopped this person and told them how much their simple acts of service and kindness meant to me and wished them a great holiday.

Once the two of us had hugged and gone back to our busy day I realized that having that short interaction was the most important thing I had accomplished that day. I only wish I had a tradition like Monica's to wrap around the event.

I think my family is going to adopt this tradition for next year.

Here are some more references to this tradition.

• Polish Christmas Traditions: Oplatek
• Polish News
• Catholic Culture
• Poland by Mail
• Krakow Info