[Music] [Applause] [Music] Have you ever been to a pada. >> The word pada means shelter in Spanish. And this Mexican tradition commemorates the search for shelter in the nativity story.Every Christmas season, my neighborhood was starts and ends at my parents house. We knock, we sing, some in tune, others not so much, and we ask for shelter. At every door, we're turned away with the same rehearsed verses as we walk from house to house in a candle lit procession on my block. When we finally arrive to my paren ...

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