Experts say there are two kinds of responses when people look in the mirror. There is a set of people who, no matter their ...

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.

Luke’s version is more rustic but heightens the dramatic tension between Jesus’s humble background and his divinity. Joseph and Mary are turned away from an inn. Mary gives birth in a barn ...

13). The Bible tells us that Joseph, Mary, and Jesus remained in Egypt until the death of Herod. Even then, though, Joseph was warned, once again in a dream, that the situation in Judea under ...

The weekend of Dec. 28 and 29 was a celebration of the holy family of Joseph, Mary and Jesus. “These memories become part of our tradition,” Bonnar said. He said on the Feast of the Holy ...

For a long time, it was called the “Circumcision of the Lord” because, on the octave day of Christmas and in accordance with Jewish law (Gn 17:12; Lk 2:21) Jesus ... of Mary and Joseph in ...

In pondering today's passage from Luke, one might say that 12-year old Jesus was not a model son. After participating in a family outing to Jerusalem to celebrate the feast of Passover ...

When Joseph awoke, he understood Mary had been faithful ... A 14th-century triptych by Duccio di Buoninsegna shows Jesus at rest in the manger. Painting by Duccio di Buoninsegna via Pantheon ...

Every year we set up a traditional manger scene near our Christmas tree. There are Mary and Joseph, a shepherd and a few sheep, three wise men and at least one camel, and the baby Jesus.

Baby Jesus in the manger. Around him ... The angel appears not to Joseph, but to Mary. And it is not magi who come from afar to pay a visit, prompted by a star, but local shepherds, prompted ...