Tag: Nativity

When Our Lord Jesus Christ was born in a cave at Bethlehem, the sky witnessed a divine liturgy, whereby the angels celebrated his birth

In the Maronite liturgical calendar, we are now preparing for the birth of the Messiah, otherwise referred to as the Season of Announcements.

With Advent just weeks away, Catholic families are ditching Santa, Rudolph and candy canes for the Holy Family

Jesus told us to be simple, like little children. This message didn’t quite make it through to the iconographers, who made the icon of...

By Patrick O’Shea The final Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Feast of Christ the King, typically brings to mind all sorts of fearsome imagery of...

Rome. A massive, 16-volume Lives of the Saints, first published between 1872 and 1877, informs me that, here in the Eternal City, the feast of Christmas first became a celebration distinct from the ancient feast of the Epiphany in the mid-fourth century — and that St John Chrysostom, one of the four doctors of the […]

It is easy to grab the wrong end of the telescope and see Christmas in a way that makes it all seem like something at the beginning of a story that happened long ago, all leading up to us.

Previously, we looked first at the fact that the focus of the gospel is on the resurrection of the body, not mere ghostly life after death.

Controversy continues over 1960s nativity at St Peter's Especially in a year when the COVID-19 pandemic will rule out many people's favourite Christmas traditions, they...

In the encounter with God who became a baby for us we discover our own true identity, Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP told Christmas Mass...

The Christmas spirit is alive and well at parish which was forced to cancel last years' display.

The annual unveiling of the Vatican's Christmas tree and Nativity scene brought some much-needed warmth to people's hearts.