Día uno de la novena de Navidad, versión en inglés

La 'Novena de Aguinaldos' es una oración que se realiza en Colombia durante nueve días para preparar el nacimiento del niño Jesús el 24 de diciembre. Reúne a la gente en torno a cantos, oraciones y celebraciones. Este es el primer día antes de la llegada de la descendencia de José y María.

(Lea también: 'Novena por Bogotá': Banco de Alimentos impulsa participación ciudadana en evento).

Esta tradición de la cultura religiosa colombiana suele realizarse junto al pesebre de Belén y el árbol de Navidad en la intimidad de los hogares o barrios, reuniendo así a familias, amigos y conocidos.

La novena navideña tiene varios pasos que incluyen villancicos y oraciones diferentes para cada día.

(Siga leyendo: ¿Qué regalos dan las personas más ricas del mundo en Navidad? Le contamos).

En EL TIEMPO sabemos que muchos colombianos que residen en países donde no se habla español esta tradición se puede ver afectada, por ello, traemos una traducción para mantener estas costumbres nacionales vigentes a cualquier parte del mundo.

One of the best-known Christmas carols in the world. This Christmas song is an anthem for those who want to wish a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year for the whole family.

This first part aims to bless the nativity scene before starting the Aguinaldos prayers. As it is customary in the country to install the traditional nativity scene in homes, plazas, parks, etc., the Archdiocese proposes this form before starting the prayer.

Once the family is gathered, the father or mother says:

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

Dear family:

During these days we will frequently contemplate this nativity scene in our home and meditate on the great love of the Son of God, who wanted to dwell with us.

Let us ask God that the nativity scene placed in our home, enlivens our Christian faith in us and helps us celebrate these Christmas festivities more intensely.

Let's listen with faith to the words of the holy Gospel according to Saint Luke (Lk 2, 4-7a).

In those days, Joseph, who was from the house and family of David, went up from the city of Nazareth, in Galilee, to the city of David, called Bethlehem, in Judea, to with his wife Mary, who was pregnant. And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth, and she gave birth to her firstborn son, wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger. Word of the Lord.

Lord God, our Father, who loved the world so much that you gave us your only Son born of the Virgin Mary, deign to bless this birth and the Christian community, our family, present here, so that the images of this birth help us to deepen our faith in adults and children and to live the virtues of the home in which Jesus was welcomed with love.

We ask this through Jesus, your beloved Son, who lives and reigns forever and ever.

In the end, everyone present, making the sign of the cross, says: In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Most benign God of infinite charity, who loved us so much and gave us your son as the best token of your love, so that, made man in the womb of a virgin, he was born in a manger for our health and remedy. I, on behalf of all mortals, give you infinite thanks for such a sovereign benefit.

In return for it, I offer you the poverty, humility, and other virtues of your humanized son, and I beg you for his divine merits, for the discomforts in which he was born, and for the tender tears he shed in the manger, that you prepare our hearts with profound humility, with burning love, and with such contempt for everything earthly, that the newly born Jesus, may have in them his cradle and dwell eternally. Amen.

From the Gospel of Saint Matthew 1:20

But just as he had made this resolution, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife, for the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.” Word of the Lord.

In the Apostolic Exhortation on Love in the Family n.8 we are taught: “The Bible is populated with families, generations, stories of love and family crises, from the first page, where the family of Adam and Eve enters the scene with its weight of violence but also with the strength of life that continues (cf. Genesis 4), to the last page where the wedding of the Bride and the Lamb appears (cf. Revelation 21:2,9)”

That is why Jesus enters our history by choosing a family, he wants to be born in it, live in it, work, live and be a son in the home of Joseph and Mary, teach us the sacred value of every human family, sanctify it with his presence, and find in the humble home he chose, an environment of love and joy. Today, as we give thanks for our families, as we ask for God's presence for those who suffer so much, let us give thanks for the institution of the family, for this gift from God that makes the family home, table, school of life, and hope.

We thank you, Lord, because you give us the gift of the family, which is made up of a father, a mother, and children who are a gift from God. Grant to our family gathered here, the joy of continuing to grow in true love, grant to families that need to rebuild themselves in the original values of every family, the joy of finding in the Family of Jesus a simple and joyful model to live. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen.

In giving thanks for the gift of the family:

Let's ask that the family values its origin in the will of God.

Let's work so that no one destroys the family institution.

(De interés: Trucos para evitar los excesos y mantenerse saludable en Navidad y fin de año).

Sovereign Mary, for your great virtues and especially for your humility, you deserved that all a God chose you for his mother. I beg you to prepare and arrange my soul and that of all those who at this time make this novena, for the birth of your adorable Son.

Oh sweetest Mother, communicate to me something of the profound recollection and divine tenderness with which you pleased him so that we are made less unworthy to see him, love him, and adore him for all eternity. Amen.

Oh Most Holy Joseph, husband of Mary and putative father of Jesus. Infinite thanks I give to God because he chose you for such high ministries and adorned you with all the gifts proportionate to such excellent greatness. I beg you for the love you had for the divine Child, embrace me in fervent desires to see him and receive him sacramentally while in his divine essence I see and enjoy him in heaven. Amen.

, Oh sweetest Child Jesus, that you said to the venerable Margaret of the Most Holy Sacrament, and in her person to all your devotees, these words so comforting for our poor burdened and suffering humanity: "Everything you want to ask, ask for it through the merits of my infancy, and nothing will be denied to you."

Full of confidence in You, oh Jesus, who are the same truth, we come to expose all our misery to you.

Help us to lead a holy life, to achieve a blessed eternity.

Grant us, by the infinite merits of your Incarnation and your infancy, the grace of which we need so much. We give ourselves to you, oh omnipotent Child, confident that our hope will not be frustrated, and that by virtue of your divine promise, you will accept and favorably dispatch our supplication. Amen.

The Christmas carol “silent night” is one of the most recognized. The melody transmits peace and tranquility, and is ideal to sing with loved ones on Christmas night.

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