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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

On Dec. 7, 2024, Pope Francis publicly showed off the Vatican's 2024 Christmas decorations: a Nativity scene and Christmas tree in St. Peter's Square and a second Nativity scene inside the Vatican.

Each year, Greccio, Italy, reenacts a living Nativity scene paying homage to Saint Francis of Assisi, who is credited with starting the exhibition that represents the birth of Jesus.

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 ...

Nativity scenes around the world have added a new accessory this Christmas season: the keffiyeh. In a controversial take on the classic holiday display, some churches are replacing the baby Jesus ...

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 ...

Pastors, Theologians Say Nativity, Origins of Jesus Prove Old Testament Promises. by Billy Hallowell. December 19, 2024 at 8:11 am. in FaithTap, News. 237 15. 0 (Pascal Deloche/Getty Images) 491.

Pope Francis prays in front of a Nativity Scene crafted in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, as he arrives for a meeting with the donors of the fir tree set up in St. Peter’s Square as a ...