The manger scene has a special place near the Christmas tree or in another place where family members can reflect and pray during the Christmas season. It is blessed each year on Christmas eve or ...

A Christmas tree is secular, as is a picture of Santa, and a menorah. In contrast, a manger, cross or Star of ... I would be worried that if you start representing certain religions' symbols ...

By Cliff Johnson At first the stable was empty. Then came lights and trees and straw and snow. Then the characters in the nativity scene at St. Nicholas Church in Carver began arriving, two at ...

And so an East Haven family tradition began: For every year until his retirement, on Christmas Eve ... nativity scene to place the Jesus in his manger. After Pizzorusso passed away in 2019 ...

Pope Francis had come to thank those who had donated the chapel’s Christmas tree and the carved ... one thing stood out: the manger on which lay the figure of the baby was covered with a ...