COMMENTARY: Today’s feast is directly linked to the jubilee years of 1975 and 2000, making its observance this jubilee year a ...

Without Mary, said Miravalle, there simply would not be a Christmas season. "Nine months before December 25, a young Jewish woman ‘full of grace’ was invited to become the 'Mother of God ...

says he hopes audiences will feel "closer" to the famous mother of Jesus after watching his retelling of the classic Nativity story. Coming to the streaming platform on December 6, "Mary" stars ...

Honoring Mary as the mother of God on Jan. 1 is ... Today’s feast is represented in the 15th-century icon “The Nativity,” prayed by Andrei Rublev. In the Orthodox tradition, sacred images ...

unlike traditional Nativity retellings, “Mary” focuses its lens on the mother of Jesus and strives to present the journey through her eyes. “Cinematically, Mary’s story has been ...

It’s that love that appears to resonate with little Emilia and the nativity. “I told her, ‘God gave us Jesus because ... of little Emilia greeting Mother Mary and Baby Jesus has garnered ...

When we celebrate a feast like the Nativity of Mary ... named in the list before we get to Mary. And those four are all connected to situations where God’s providence works through complicated ...

Playing the mother ... old nativity story. “We think it's a story that will inspire people of all faiths today as the world continues to undergo extraordinary events,” says producer Mary ...