# Event Details - **Event Name**: Christmas Celebration - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 24 Dec, 2025 at 09:00 am – Wed, 24 Dec, 2025 at 08:30 pm - **Event Description**: Enjoy the holiday spirit in a community setting where we offer each other the best gift ever: Our True Presence!About this EventDear Friends,We warmly invite you to join our Christmas Celebration on December 24, 2025!Our program for this day is as follows:7:30 Breakfast9:00 Dharma Talk in the Big Meditation Hall11:00 Walking Meditation12:00 Lunch15:00 Gift Preparations17:30 Dinner19:00 Be-InProgram concludes.We wish you much inner peace and love during this holiday season!*Please bring a small gift (if possible, preferably handmade to encourage creativity and fun or of less than $10 value) for a gift exchange game.For our monastics and long term retreatants, if you pick a name, we are encouraged to observe the person who's name we picked to better understand them and offer an appropriate gift that suits their needs or personality.If you are visiting for the weekend, please don't worry too much about the materialistic aspect of the gift--it's the heart that counts and we just offer our joy--the most precious gift! Let our seeds of creativity be watered: we can offer a poem we made, perhaps a photo of nature we took, or a handcrafted gift... and go beyond the boxes of conventional thinking. Our spirit of gift exchange is not to nurture the culture of consumerism but to see how creative we can be with our gifts in a joyful way. We can still offer gifts without watering the seeds of consumerism in each other. (If it's easiest for you to buy a gift, something we can use in our everyday life or food gifts are also perfectly fine.)**Please kindly note that we are unable to accomodate overnight stays as we will need to prepare for our upcoming Holiday Retreat which begins Dec. 28th. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/63cbe680-cbe2-11f0-b3a2-69e2981d0cde-rimg-w555-h740-dc1a1616-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/641cc5a0-cbe2-11f0-b8d6-d31b7a34d3e9-rimg-w1110-h740-dc070606-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/64570f80-cbe2-11f0-b8ca-63555f95e796-rimg-w1110-h740-dc1b1413-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/batesville/christmas-celebration/100001975704233547 - **Event Categories**: christmas, health-wellness, meditation, holiday - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Batesville - **state**: MS - **country**: United States - **location**: Magnolia Grove Monastery - **lat**: 34.3602102 - **long**: -89.9961935 - **full address**: Magnolia Grove Monastery, 123 Towles Road, Batesville, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Christmas Celebration - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/01d6ea75e4496b0b042606bbbb6c039ad060696608b56bdfce97a1185a518cdd-rimg-w1200-h800-dc311102-gmir.jpg?v=1764283396 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Christmas Celebration being held? - **A:** Christmas Celebration takes place on Wed, 24 Dec, 2025 at 09:00 am to Wed, 24 Dec, 2025 at 08:30 pm at Magnolia Grove Monastery, 123 Towles Road, Batesville, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Christmas Celebration? - **A:** Christmas Celebration is organized by Magnolia Grove Monastery. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Christmas Celebration", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/01d6ea75e4496b0b042606bbbb6c039ad060696608b56bdfce97a1185a518cdd-rimg-w1200-h800-dc311102-gmir.jpg?v=1764283396", "startDate": "2025-12-24", "endDate": "2025-12-24", "url": "https://allevents.in/batesville/christmas-celebration/100001975704233547", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Magnolia Grove Monastery", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "123 Towles Road", "postalCode": "38606", "addressLocality": "Batesville", "addressRegion": "MS", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "34.3602102", "longitude": "-89.9961935" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Enjoy the holiday spirit in a community setting where we offer each other the best gift ever: Our True Presence!", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-21", "availabilityEnds": "2025-12-24", "validFrom": "2026-04-21", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/batesville/christmas-celebration/100001975704233547" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-21", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-21", "url": "https://allevents.in/batesville/christmas-celebration/100001975704233547", "price": 0, "name": "Donation" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Magnolia Grove Monastery", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/magnolia-grove-monastery/22818343", "description": "Magnolia Grove Monastery is a residential monastery and is simultaneously, Magnolia Grove Meditation Practice Center, a Mindfulness Practice Meditation Center in the tradition of Plum Village, founded by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, who was nominated for a Noble Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr..Magnolia Grove Monastery in Batesville, Mississippi is the realization of a dream held by a compassionate community intent on establishing a center for mindfulness in the tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. Deer Park Monastery in California and Blue Cliff Monastery in New York uphold his tradition. Now, his teaching and methods of practice are taking root in Mississippi.Ten years ago Magnolia Grove was little more than 120 acres purchased by a group of committed individuals and families. With hard work, dedication and coordinated effort they created a large meditation hall with an adjoining commercial kitchen to feed participants, and they built by hand a guesthouse to host 120 laypeople.The vision of the community that built this beautiful practice center was more fully realized when Thich Nhat Hanh accepted Magnolia Grove Monastery as a mindfulness practice center in October 2005. Today, more than thirty monastics from Thich Nhat Hanh’s monasteries are in residence.Magnolia Grove Monastery is a place to practice meditation and mindfulness. It is where every breath we take reminds us of the wonders of life. A place to sit and relax. A place to walk and kiss the earth beneath our feet. A place to rest under a willow tree on an island in a lotus pond. A place to eat together and savor every bite. A place to listen deeply to the sounds of life and the sound of our hearts. A place to work together to build a community of love and understanding. Magnolia Grove is a place where we can stop running, and discover peace with every step we take. A place to remind each one of us that the present moment is a wonderful moment.“Breathe! You are online.”" } ] } ] ```