NEW YEAR DAY Celebrations :Welcome 2006

New Year is not merely the first day of January, buy it has wider connotations. The celebration is at least as old as the Babylonian festival dating as back as 3000 B.C. The practice of keeping a prayer-vigil during the closing hour of the passing year and the birth of the new year with a midnight worship is only slowly becoming a custom among the Christians in Kerala. Members of Christian families now assemble in Churches and offer prayers. At midnight the bells in Churches and offer prayers. At midnight the bells of churches peal joyously ringing in the year. Communion follows immediately or in the morning. The day is at times more festive than Christmas. At home there will be something additionally to serve anyone caring to drop in during the day.