ALONE among national congregations in the Catholic Church, the Filipino faithful are allowed two celebrations related to Christmas: the nine-day early-morning or late-evening novena Masses before the ...

After viewing the photo gallery, read about the game here. * The Nativity boys basketball team huddles up as Nativity BVM hosts Williams Valley Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (MATTHEW PERSCHALL/MULTIMEDIA ...

Q: Where do the many Nativity motifs--Cave, Ox and Ass ... It is the Pseudo-Matthew which tells us that, once in the manger in the stable, ox and ass worshipped the Lord Jesus Christ. The text quotes ...

Deacon Greg Kandra provides a reflection on the readings and Gospel for the Presentation of the Lord, Feb. 2, 2025.

And the LORD said to Moses ... the Catholic Church dropped the "Second Commandment" which forbids "graven images", i.e. statues. Allegedly the Catholic Church condones statue worship.

The design reflects deep cultural symbolism, with a temple motif at 9 o’clock and a silhouette of Lord Ram and Lord Hanuman at 3 o’clock. The phrase “JAI SHRI RAM” is etched beneath the ...

America surrendered to Donald Trump on TV on Monday. The resistance, the old one that dogged Mr. Trump in his first term as president anyway, has been brought to heel after an election where he ...

Themes: The story of the birth of Jesus; celebrating Christmas. Summary: This assembly, suitable for an act of collective worship, is for Christmas time and focuses on the Christian story of the ...

Mexicans often keep the figurines during the Christmas season in Nativity scenes displayed in homes, and on Candlemas they take them to church to be blessed. — The Associated Press If you purchase a ...

Marking also the Presentation of the Lord, on this day ... this feast falls 40 days after the Nativity. In fact, until not long ago, the Church celebrated the season of Christmas for 40 days ...

You’ve got to be kidding, right? A virgin birth? Surely that’s way out there with the Loch Ness Monster and Santa Claus?” No, I’m not kidding. Some 700 years before it happened, ...

The Byzantine mosaic portraying the Annunciation at the well of San Marco in Venice from the 1220 AD 4 shows Mary fetching water as the Angel of the Lord approached her ... The earliest iconographic ...