Friday, December 7, 2012
PHOENIX — Yosef Garcia grew up Catholic in Panama. He was an altar boy in his town’s church. Back then, for him, the winter holidays meant Christmas.
“You would start out with midnight mass, there were a lot of rituals,” Garcia said. “As the altar boy you would be always be standing with the priest, doing all the pouring of the wine and washing the priests’ hands.”
But outside of church, and throughout the year, Garcia noticed a more mysterious set of family rituals….