{"id":26700,"date":"2022-12-02T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omnesmag.com\/?p=26700"},"modified":"2022-12-02T12:02:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T11:02:16","slug":"caminito-de-belen-vivir-el-adviento-en-familia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/actualidad\/caminito-de-belen-vivir-el-adviento-en-familia\/","title":{"rendered":"Caminito de Bel\u00e9n: Living Advent with the family"},"content":{"rendered":"
Victor and Pilar have celebrated 50 years of marriage this year. This figure is completed with their 10 children, 8 children-in-law and 25 grandchildren. All of them form the L\u00f3pez Antol\u00edn family, which has a long tradition of Christmas performances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As one of the daughters, Pilar, points out, \"the 'culprit' of it all is our mother. With her unstoppable ingenuity and her eagerness to help us get into the Belen<\/a>He took out of the trunk of memories old costumes, bedspreads, that Mexican poncho that grandfather brought back from his honeymoon, costumes from the end of the school year party... anything he could find, and dressed each one of us as a character from the Nativity Scene, to immortalize the moment in the Christmas greeting. Christmas<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n And every night Dad would tell us a bedtime story, in which Victor, the older brother, would meet the rest of the siblings on their way to Bethlehem: Juaco, the footballer shepherd, Javier, the gardener, Ana, the milkmaid... It was a way of helping us to participate in the Advent<\/a> with imagination\". <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n As the years went by, those children grew up \"Fifty years later, the ten of us are scattered between Madrid, Zaragoza, Paris, London and Melbourne.\"<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The L\u00f3pez Antol\u00edn family has been building their families, but the memory of those Christmas performances has always been present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The idea of what it is today Caminito de Belen <\/em>was born among the siblings sharing those same Christmas memories. They wanted to relive that same Christmas preparation together. \"to our children and nieces and nephews, in addition to bringing the Advent message to many homes in a graphic way.\"<\/em>. \"We were trying to find an Advent calendar as close as possible to the story my father used to tell us. We came up with the idea of making our own Advent calendar. If we couldn't find anything like it, we would make it ourselves.\"<\/em>Pilar says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thus, several siblings started a project in which the whole family became involved: \"We got down to work. Victor did the drawings while Pilar wrote the stories. Muka was in charge of raising funds, basically donations and loans from (many!) friends and family and opening a profile on social networks. Jose was in charge of creating the web page and Gonzalo, one of the brothers-in-law, has edited some explanatory videos that you can see in our website <\/em>www.littlewaycaminito.com<\/em><\/a>\",<\/em> the L\u00f3pez Antol\u00edn brothers point out. <\/p>\n\n\n During the months of work, the brothers shared the progress of the project with their families. \"We would read the book to the children and, depending on their reaction, we would modify it....\"<\/em>. In additionEach character has the name of one of the 25 nephews in our family: the star speaks of my nephew Wei, who has Down syndrome; Gonzo represents Gonzalito, who was born at 24 weeks in a very critical condition and kept us awake for 5 months; and the stories of the little donkey, the washerwoman and the baker speak of vocation, confession and receiving Jesus in Communion, respectively\".<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n All those months of work resulted in the material offered to live Advent: <\/p>\n\n\n\n - an illustrated book in A4 format with explanations of the symbols of Christmas, and 24 stories, one for each day of Advent, in honor of the 24 stories their father told the brothers following the Advent calendar; <\/p>\n\n\n\n -a book for the youngest members of the family in A5 format;<\/p>\n\n\n\n -24 figurines of the wooden Nativity Scene;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Living Advent \"on the road\".<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n