Offering your Home - Hospitality and Kindness

When Religion was instructed in the home, the invitation was a welcomed condition.  My father and mother invited church to pray in our home.  Religion was offered with an invitation.  The hospitality was seen as religion.

These forms of prayer in the home and hospitality was the traditional offering of Devotion to the Divine Child Jesus, also known as the Santo Nino.

Images of a Child dressed like a King.

Kindness and offering was given freely through the home.  And I watched my mother and grandmother sew the clothing of this Little King.

The Visual Representation of the Little King, the Divine Child Jesus, Santo Nino
The Robe was sewed by my Mother and Grandmother

The clothing had beautiful sequence and silk or velvet material.  And the love that was offered for the Little King was heard as religion and tradition.

The joyful occasion of a King finding His way to our Home was a gift of grace and religion.  It was an external and visual blessing of a Holy reliance of church and persons as one.

This Little King was the Divine Child Jesus, the Santo Nino.  People from the other homes and villages came to receive our hospitality and greeting and an Altar was prepared for the Little King.

The sound of joy was the celebration of music, guitars and drums as they came into our home with song and circumstance.

And the Little King was placed on the Altar for adoration and worship.

A Little King whom we loved and welcomed into our Home.  Our hospitality welcomed worship to God.

We worshiped God in invoking the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.  The Sign of the Cross.  We prayed as a whole in communion with the Holy Trinity.  We did this through the recitation of the Holy Rosary.

We sang songs to the Little King and His Mother, our Queen.

It was so joyous a sound, the communion was a Feast.

In America, we were able to have a gathering in our home, and it was very simple with a group of people from this association.  We shared our addresses and prayed which family would host the hospitality.  Our family offered to dress the Divine Child Jesus and our preparation for his coming was very special.

May 1995, Fifteen years old

And the Little King and His Queen Mother stays with us for a month until he is hosted by another family and their home.  And rosaries are offered throughout His stay with our family for very special intentions.

Mother and Grandmother sewed the Robe and Clothing of the Divine Infant of Prague
at the Sts. Felicitas and Perpetua Convent in San Marino, California.