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.

And Joseph also ... and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. The reader concludes: The gospel of the Lord. All respond: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

Luke 2:1-7, The Birth of Jesus 1 In those days a decree went out from ... 16 So they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the child lying in the manger. 17 When they saw this, they made ...

“Silent Night” depictions of Christ’s birth are unrealistic, as plastic as decorations that appear on lawns every December, as staged as the declarations of love at the end of a Hallmark Christmas ...

No baby in a manger, no Mary and Joseph, no maggi ... on a journey through an “altered history,” where there is no Jesus. How would it affect the world as we know it? First I think our ...

They miss the taste of Sami’s tea, Afteem’s falafel, and fresh-squeezed pomegranate juice in Manger Square ... the arrival of Joseph and Mary down the cobbled Star Street and celebrate the birth of ...

The Appalachian Christmas carol “Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head ... to the disquieting conditions of the Holy Nativity—Mary’s and Joseph’s late arrival in Bethlehem, with an uncertain ...

Mary and Joseph are distraught." The post also asks the would-be kidnappers of the Baby Jesus to bring him back safely to his manger - preferably in one piece. The post adds: "Please would the ...