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1 of 4 Or a young shepherd boy’s attempt to use his staff to remove a wise man’s crown. An older boy and girl, as Joseph and Mary, knelt by the manger which contained a pink, plastic baby doll to represent the infant Jesus. Wait! The word came from the youngest angel at the altar. It echoed throughout the sanctuary, even above the sounds of the crying infant. The couple stopped and turned. The crying started shortly into the program. A baby’s cries rose ab...

How could it be? The first line of this Michael Card song has challenged me again and again—sometimes in surprising contexts.  How could it be? reminds me of centuries of theological debate about the Incarnation.  How could it be? still challenges us today—in more than one way. Joseph appears to be one of Scripture’s shadow figures—you know, those biblical personalities we always see in the picture, yet who appear to be more decorative than substantial. 2 Unlike those of Zacharias, ...

Where shall We go for Christmas 2020   Sat, Dec 19 2020 December 19, 2020 Christmas is a season of joy, happiness, frolic and fun. We visualize different plans, besides, spot different places for Christmas merriment. Some wish to go home, others for holidays, a few love to while away roaming around Malls, some visit friends, still others to amusing places. No doubt, all these are excellent abodes to savor Christmas festivity. As this Year is severely affected by the untold havocs of the Pandem...

Rare celestial event to take place Monday A rare celestial event will take place Monday as Saturn and Jupiter appear to overlap. It’s called the Great Conjunction and will look like a bright star. This phenomenon is extra special because it takes place on winter solstice and during the week of Christmas. Bright and rare, it brings hope after a tumultuous year. Marc Weinberg, chief meteorologist at WDRB in Louisville, said the Great Conjunction is significant. Story continues below gallery 1 o...

1. Bethel Lutheran Church, 607 Sixth St. N. in Wahpeton, will display a live Nativity scene from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20. The drive-by attraction, depicting the Biblical story of Jesus’ birth, features live animals, shepherds, the three Wise Men, angels and the Holy Family. 2. The Wilkin Drink and Eatery in Breckenridge, Minnesota, announced on Facebook that they will temporarily close, effective Monday, Dec. 21, due to Gov. Tim Walz’s extension of the COVID-19 restrictions thr...

Special to the Tribune By now you may have been seeing articles on- line about the “Christmas Star” that will be visible on the evening of the 21st of December (Monday). Some reports are saying this will be the same star that the Three Wise Men followed. Some scholars suggest the Christmas Star was not a bright new star that was leading the wise men but rather a conjunction of two or three planets in the night sky and that the Wise Men were following, or watching.  A planetary conj...

Joe Biden vows to restore the Iran nuclear deal. Before President Trump withdrew from the agreement, Iran had reneged despite cash paid and promises made. After billions of taxpayer dollars were sent to appease the Iranians, they continued to denounce the United States. Past administrations exercising military might or paying a price for peace proved imprudent. However, Iran’s actions in the region inspired the Abraham Accords. Iran’s negative influences in Lebanon and Syria could lead to...

Local students win national Christmas artwork contest Andrea Verch, a seventh-grader at the Regina Coeli Academy in Abington, was one of two national winners from the Philadelphia Archdiocese in the Missionary Child Association’s 2019-20 Christmas Artwork Contest. (Photo courtesy of Alixandra Holden/Missionary Child Association, Archdiocese of Philadelphia) By Gina Christian • Posted December 18, 2020 Two area Catholic school students have been named national winners in a prestigious annua...

“It is truly ugly. How very sad,” Deacon Keith Fournier of the Diocese of Richmond, Virginia, tweeted. “The Catholic Church has such beautiful art. This increasingly ugly world is hungering for beauty. Why would this be chosen?” A host on Relevant Radio, a Catholic network, called the display “unusually modernistic.” Art historian Elizabeth Lev in America Magazine, a Jesuit publication, noted the “universal outpouring of mockery.” And The New York Post said “if it were a Broad...

It is one of the Christmas storys central and most enduring elements - the sighting of a bright star in the skies guiding the Wise Men to Bethlehem and heralding the birth of Jesus Christ. But the Vatican has now said it believes the glare from the Star of Bethlehem may have been caused by what is known as a "Great Conjunction" of planets, in this case bringing Venus and Jupiter in close alignment and creating an unusually bright light in the sky above the Holy Land. And the phenomenon which ...