Today is the first day of the Chinese Lunar Year of the Horse.
We attended the Thanksgiving Mass at 9:00 am.
It is a tradition for the Chinese on the first day of New Year to go to Churches to offer thanksgiving to God the Creator for the blessing of the past year. （Non-Christians will go the the temples)
We also ask our merciful God to shower us blessing and Graces for the coming New Year.
Following ancient Chinese tradition of 3 Rites, on the first day of the lunar new year, every household will pray to God, giving thanks to Mother Earth for good harvest and honouring ancestors.
No God, no earth; no earth, no harvest; no ancestors, no us.
After Mass, we went down to Seremban to visit my elder sister and 2nd sister-in-law.
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今天是马年的大年初一。
我们参加了早上九点的感恩弥撒。
这是华人的传统习俗，在大年初一，第一件事情就是到教堂去朝拜天主，感谢祂过去一年的恩赐。（非基督徒通常到神庙）
我们也在此一年之开始，向仁慈的天父祈求祂在新的一年里，继续祝福及恩赐大家。
根据远古的传统，在新年的第一天，家家户户都会拜祭天主（天公），感谢大地母亲及对先主的恭敬及追思。这叫作三礼。
弥撒过后，我们到芙蓉探望我的姐姐及二嫂。
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