IMAGINE YOU’RE IN THE AUDIENCE AT A CHRISTMAS PAGEANT and the oh-so-familiar story is unfolding before you. It’s nighttime in Bethlehem, where a wondrous star hangs overhead. Angels watch over the birth. Because there was no room at the inn, the baby Jesus lies in a manger, in the stable, under the loving gaze of …
Mother and Child – Part 1
THE MUSES BROUGHT PAUL McCARTNEY A MAGICAL BIT OF ARCHETYPAL INSPIRATION to get him started on the song “Let It Be” — (sing along with me now) “When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me …” The image evokes not only millennia of Marian veneration, but also our collective affection …
The Magi Didn’t See Shepherds at a Manger
EVEN THOUGH CHRISTMAS PAGEANTS BRING THEM TOGETHER, the wise men and the shepherds appear in separate nativity stories, one in the Gospel of Matthew, the other in the Gospel of Luke. The two stories are significantly different, but they deliver the same truth, the same subversive message: The kingdom of God has arrived to overthrow …
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