Your family and you can gather around the nativity scene or the altar and say this powerful prayer to Baby Jesus on Christmas Eve with open hearts and souls. You might also hold a white candle ...

Pope Francis said today that the Vatican’s Nativity scene this year should compel people to think of the Holy Land — both of Christ’s birth in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago and also of the ...

CNA Staff, Nov 25, 2023 / 08:00 am. This year, Catholics will be able to receive a plenary indulgence from Dec. 8, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, to Feb. 2 ...

In the western Christian version of the nativity story, three men from distant lands cross the deserts guided by the “Star of Bethlehem”, bearing gifts for the newly born Jesus.. The “three ...

On Christmas Eve in 1517, the Blessed Virgin Mary placed the Christ Child in his arms of St. Cajetan during his first Mass in the Chapel of the Nativity.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — It isn’t subtle. Nor is it intended to be. Instead of a pastoral-looking Nativity scene, the creche features baby Jesus wrapped in a checkered Palestinian kaffiyeh ...

Dismantling the Nativity Scene is also an extremely symbolic moment. It’s often done after “el Rezo del Niño” (a traditional prayer service for the Christ Child). Once again, family, friends, and ...

Vatican City, Dec 9, 2023 / 09:50 am. Pope Francis said today that the Vatican’s Nativity scene this year should compel people to think of the Holy Land — both of Christ’s birth in Bethlehem ...