Another insisted: “Let us give credit where credit is due, never forgetting lowly Joseph’s important role in Christmas, and the willingness to faithfully follow the call of God then, and days and years after, always obeying His spiritual directions”. He will be called the Son of God.
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The following is the Nativity story from the Gospel of St. Luke. Later, after Jesus is born, a midwife verified that Mary had retained her virginity – even after giving birth!
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And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
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“How will this be”, Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”
Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way.
The story continues in Luke 2:1-20.
Now it happened in those days, that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
The 33-year-old, who is a self-confessed fan of Monty Python’s Life of Brian, has been leading an Embodied Religion themed research project at the Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, exploring the life and times of Jesus and the way religion is experienced in and on the body including what people wear and what they touch, smell, and taste.
Recognized, hopefully reflected, and portrayed in some churches and homes, momma Mary with unborn, traveling to Bethlehem on a donkey, being forced to stay in the barn, birthing a newborn, wrapped in swaddling clothes, and sleeping in a cow manger, with the North Star guiding admirers from afar. He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and make a careful search for the child”.
Now there were shepherds in that region living in the fields and keeping the night watch over their flock. An angel warned them of Herod’s plans, and they refused to return. The angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. You should find the baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger”.
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will among people”.
16 So they hurried away and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in the manger.
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And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and they fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told. When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them.
