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I really would love to hear any ideas. This is an area I find so fascinating. I love ethnic traditions and I love the liturgical year celebrating - nice combo when put together. 
So after you vote - then post any traditions you do (or those you know of). And since we are entering Lent soon, those associated with Lent and Easter would be especially great to hear about now.
The prizes for this poll include:
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I chose the first one: from my own family's culture. Although it is purely from my husband's german culture. I do have german ancestors but the traditions were not passed down in our family to my generation in America.
I am not really sure I can definitively say that a specific tradition is german or is it just catholic and it is just no longer practiced in other regions??? And as I never knew certain practices in my little world in America I therefore call them german. Who knows
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My own family of origin was very WASP, so we did not celebrate any of the ethnic Catholic traditions associated with our heritage. When I became Catholic, I adopted a combination of traditions from my own heritage (Swedish, English, German) and some other traditions, mainly from my husband's Italian family.
One of our favorites is the Feast of St. Joseph. I wrote a blog post about that here. Just a note, the cake I posted the recipe to there is good, but not great. In subsequent years, we had cannoli pastries. Tiramisu would be another tasty alternative. Another particularly Swedish feast we celebrate is the feast of St. Lucia. We did make Spritz cookies when I was young, so that does bring in my own family traditions as well.
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I'm a convert from a WASP background, so I don't have any. None from my husband's side, either. I've been learning about some but haven't implemented any yet.
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We have no roots to claim, but we have adopted several that work for us.
Dutch speculatius cooking for St. Nicholas day and putting shoes out for his visit.
Sicilian St. Joseph altar
Ukrainian pysanky
Different bread recipes from various countries
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This topic always reminds me of this quote by Florence Berger in Cooking for Christ:
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We have been lucky to celebrate St. Joseph's Day a few times with Italian friends who make an altar and serve traditional foods. That is fun- but we have no special family ethnic traditions of our own.
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I've hunted up a few things from ethnic traditions that match up ethnicity in our family (mainly my dh's side.. mine is less knowable)
Fighting a cold here and drawing a blank.. hmm I try and model our Easter feast after the Polish tradition.. I usually have to reduce the sheer amount but I try and get most elements in.
We have Posole on New Year's Day from the New Mexican tradition (similar to black eyed peas in the south).
Oh I'm part of a group that is bringing a Las Posadas celebration into our Parish festivities. Doing a bit more each year. It's fun.
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We have Polish and Basque heritage from my side and Portuguese from my husband's side. I am recently trying to seek out more traditions. Some would be easier if we lived in areas with strong ethnic communities who still practice the faith in community. Like in California where my husband grew up they had the festas - especially the Holy Ghost festa for Pentecost. There are cool traditions with that but hard to implement on own - though I should try more.
For Polish we have incorporated the Oplatki (Christmas wafer) into our Christmas Eve. I am looking into some Lenten traditions.
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Tamales on Christmas, always.
We participated in our first Posada this past December at our parish and I think we will try to do that again.
I am only 1/4 Hispanic, but that is the side of the family I grew up and celebrated holidays with. I need to research some Polish (another 1/4) and Lithuanian (another 1/4) traditions.
Great poll question! Lots to think about.
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We're Filipino -- besides eating some traditional Filipino foods during Lent (fish and seafood dishes), I try to sing the Pasyon like my parents did when I was little. And on Maundy Thursdays we do a Visita Iglesia, though it's been a while since we've done this, so we plan to do it again this year.
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