The Nativity by Giotto THE NATIVITY And so he was born, this gloriously impossible baby, in a stable in Bethlehem. Mary and Joseph had to...

...and the time came for her to be delivered...Luke 2.6 Impending birth is riveting. The pain is offset by the ecstatic thrill that the...

Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the...

When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the child leaped in her womb. Luke 1:39-45(46-55) Young pregnant Mary "goes with haste" to see...

On this day, light is limited and dark is long...and then we come out from under a proverbial rock, and bit by bit the light grows. At...

Grant us the gift of your Spirit, that we may know you and make you known; and through you, at all times and in all places, may give...

But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, ‘You brood of vipers! Matthew 3. 1 - 12 John the...

The Lord is near. Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made...

A great portent appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars....

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