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As told to Hilda Joy by the late Velma Jaramillo Clevelle several years ago.
Every December 16, my siblings—brother Ben and sisters Teresa and Eppie—begin our Advent Novena. By doing so, we carry on the tradition handed down to us by our parents, Ben and Rose Jaramillo. During the nine days before Christmas, we take turns cooking and baking for each other as we host joyous dinners in our homes for each other and our families. Everyone in the family has a food specialty that the others look forward to during this holy season. After dinner, we kneel together and pray, in Spanish, the Advent Novena prayers taught us by our parents—the Novena de El Santo Niño de Atocha. There is a slight variance from day to day. As these prayers were in my father’s prayer book, I one day decided to take apart the pages and then reproduced them for all as I felt that the actual words as we remember seeing them would be more meaningful to family members than mere copies.
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