Region celebrates Macedonian Orthodox Christmas in the Illawarra

Parishioners celebrate Macedonian Orthodox Christmas in Wollongong on January, 7 2026. Video by Anna Warr

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00:00So my name is Marie and I've grown up in Wollongong my whole life and I've come to

00:06this church ever since I was a baby. Always celebrating Bozheek here with

00:11family and friends and it's just become a really special tradition in our

00:15culture and our religion and we're just passing it down to my kids now and my

00:19husbands and yeah it's just beautiful that we're teaching our kids to

00:23celebrate not only the 25th is Christmas but as the 7th of January as our

00:28Christmas as well and yeah it's just a really special day for all of us.

00:32Hello my name is Anna Maria and this is Little Lucas and we're here today

00:37celebrating Maseranian Orthodox Christmas. We come to church early in

00:44the morning and listen to the Divine Liturgy. We also then take our Holy

00:50Eucharist and we finish off the church day with some bread, blessed bread and

00:57and we just come and celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ and usually get

01:02together afterwards with... Jesus Christ! Usually get together afterwards with

01:08family to have a nice lunch or a dinner and it's just a day to celebrate and

01:13venerate our Lord.

01:27That's a good thing, but I was going to come and see so I hope that we're going to go

01:33into that platform as a daddy from last year to my father.

01:39Like we'll be on another thing.

01:41Maybe as a banner, you can uh...

01:43around even Celebrate the family.

01:46Yeah!

01:48All right!