Third Joyful Mystery – The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Product Description The Third Joyful Mystery – The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ plaque is depicts the birth of Jesus as narrated in Matthew 1:18-24, 2:1-12, and Luke 2:1-20. This plaque will be the perfect simple nativity scene in your home for Christmas. This plaque – along with all of the 19 other Mysteries of the Rosary will be a wonderful gift for a hospital, school, retreat house, convent, or monastery. The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ Plaque – An Inspiring Labor of Faith, Hope and Love This plaque of the Nativity stands 8.6 x 6.9 x 1 inches and is composed of dolomite stone and resin. A community of cloistered nuns in France create and finish by hand each plaque in their monastery’s atelier. Each nun prayerfully completes a specific task to complete each plaque. How, where, and by whom this plaque is made means that the The Nativity Plaque is indeed in every sense of the words “culturally authentic” – a truly inspiring labor of faith, hope, and love! The Nativity – God’s Christmas Gift to Us During the Christmas season it is so very easy to focus on all the gifts:  the gift lists, the gifts for this person or that person, the gifts which we hope to receive under the tree, the gifts we seek out for those special persons in our lives, the gifts we are urged and coaxed to give by the incessant advertising on TV, the gift “deals” which we rise early on Black Friday to shop for, the gifts that we give to the many persons who provide special services to us during the year, the gifts of the Magi (gold, frankincense, and myrrh), and on and on and on. But there is only one truly essential gift on Christmas day, only one gift that cannot be returned, cannot be ignored, cannot be “re-gifted”, cannot be denied: the gift of God’s own self to us in the baby Jesus. This is God’s absolute, unique, irrevocable, unmediated, self-communication into our human history.  This is God’s kenosis, God’s emptying of God’s own self into the radical vulnerability, innocence, and simplicity of an infant child. This is the one and only true gift of Christmas. This is God’s one and only Christmas gift to all of us, now and forever. The Mysteries of the Rosary JOYFUL MYSTERIES OF THE ROSARY The Annunciation of the Lord to Mary The Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth The Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ The Presentation of Our Lord Finding Jesus in the Temple at age 12 SORROWFUL MYSTERIES OF THE ROSARY The Agony of Jesus in the Garden The Scourging at the Pillar Jesus is Crowned with Thorns Jesus Carries the Cross The Crucifixion of our Lord GLORIOUS MYSTERIES OF THE ROSARY The Resurrection of Jesus Christ The Ascension of Jesus to Heaven The Descent of the Holy Spirit The Assumption of Mary into Heaven Mary is Crowned as Queen of Heaven and Earth LUMINOUS MYSTERIES OF THE ROSARY The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan The Wedding at Cana The Proclamation of the Kingdom The Transfiguration The Institution of the Eucharist