while the donkey that accompanies Mary and Jesus is a donkey - a pagan symbol. The two animals feed from the same trough, representing the union between the two. The Eucharistic dimension of the birth ...

the two different Gospel Infancy Narratives by examining a series of scenes in each of the narratives; the unique characteristics of each account; the limits of our historical knowledge about Jesus’s ...

This is because it is there that the Evangelists’ inspired insights into the meaning of Jesus Christ can be discerned ... In Matthew’s narrative, Jesus’ birth is detected by foreign priests, the magi; ...