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How do people celebrate their time with their family during Christmas? What's the history behind the tradition? At its core, Christmas is a celebration of the birth of Jesus. The holiday's connection to Christ is obvious through its root "Christ's Mass".


For Christians, it is the time to renew one's faith, give generously and consider the past. But Christmas is also a secular celebration of family-one that many non-Christians and people of other religions are comfortable accepting as their own. Christmas is also a fascinating miscellany of traditions: one that combines pre-Christian pagan rituals with modern traditions. Every family that celebrates Christmas has its own customs--some surprisingly universal, others entirely unique-but all comfortably familiar in their seeming antiquity.


On Christmas eve,traditionally, we hear mass before Christmas starts, exchange gifts, and forgive each other.


For Christmas, do you have a wishlist of gifts you want? What does your family do every Christmas? What is the best gift you have ever received and given?

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
~Charles Dickens

VISION STATEMENT


St. Joseph's Academy , the home of world-famous Bamboo Organ, is the oldest Catholic educational institution in the Diocese Of Paranaque.

It envisions itself to be the center for integral faith formation, academic excellence and servant- leadership for the members of the school community

Inspired by St Joseph, its patron, it seeks to develop socially responsible and just Christian achievers for God and Nation.

MISSION STATEMENT


1. Live up to the original intent of its founders as partner of evangelization and the promotion of BEC as a way of life.

2. Develop the core competencies of its personnel and stakeholders and to provide well-balanced and challenging curriculum int the pursuit of the excelllence

3. Molds its members to be agents of change who are actively involved in the social, moral and political issues affecting society and its environment.

4. Promote local culture and heritage


Core Values


I am SJA
I am a
S-imple
J-esus centered
A-chiever available to serve


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