A Christmas nativity scene depicts Jesus, Mary, and Joseph separated and caged, as if asylum seekers detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, at Claremont United Methodist Church on ...

Both Matthew and Luke say Jesus was born in Bethlehem, but only Luke explains that Joseph and heavily pregnant Mary had to travel there from Nazareth to be present for a census ordered by Herod.

Whether you're religious or not, you know what a basic Nativity scene looks like -- Joseph and Mary kneeling by the manger of the baby Jesus, surrounded by shepherds, kings, and farm animals ...

Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph December 29, 2024 Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14 Psalm 128 Colossians 3:12-21 or 3:12-17 Luke 2:41-52 ...

This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. Because ...

St. Joseph, as an observant Jew, would have been keenly aware of God’s action in his family’s life and thus made himself, like Mary, “the servant of the Lord” (cf. Luke 1:38).

Therefore, Joseph was already Mary’s legal husband at the time Jesus was conceived. ‘The Dream of St. Joseph,’ by the 18th-century Italian painter Stefano Maria Legnani.