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.

But when Jesus presses them for their own thoughts ... the Slaughter of the Innocents or a Roman census requiring Joseph and Mary to travel to Bethlehem. But our choice is not between truth ...

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 ...

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 ...

Another beloved hymn, “Away in a Manger,” also focuses on ... Maybe pondering a frightened Mary, a distressed Joseph, and a crying Jesus will allow us to set aside our own facades.

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.

Quincy Center has been decked out for the holidays. City workers have set up the enormous Christmas tree on the green fronting City Hall, as well as the Nativity scene just within the gate of the ...

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 ...

Among the most common Christmas traditions are small sets of figures depicting Joseph, Mary and Jesus that are displayed in individual homes, and live reenactments of the manger scene in ...