The nine days of Christmas: Filipino immigrants reenact how Joseph and Mary were rejected migrants
The Christmas mass drama begins with two Filipinos wearing Mary and Joseph costumes walking up to people in the pews and symbolically asking them for a room at the inn.
In this centuries-old Filipino ritual being re-enacted in Metro Vancouver, Joseph and pregnant Mary, who have just arrived in Bethlehem, are three times turned away by inhospitable townspeople/parishioners.
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