The Word Among Us

Advent 2017 Issue

Do You See What Mary Sees?

We can treasure and ponder the Christmas mysteries with our Blessed Mother.

By: The Word Among Us

Do You See What Mary Sees?: We can treasure and ponder the Christmas mysteries with our Blessed Mother. by The Word Among Us

Nazareth was a small village. With a population of no more than 400 at the time of Jesus and an area of about 10 acres, the entire village could fit comfortably inside St. Peter’s Square in Rome and still have plenty of land left over. It lay only about three miles from Sepphoris, one of Galilee’s wealthiest and most cultured cities, but Nazareth itself was mainly a quiet farming community. It was considered so inconsequential that when Nathanael heard that Jesus had come from there, he asked, almost mockingly, “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” (John 1:46).

Yet it was here in Nazareth that the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary and invited her to become the mother of the Messiah. So if we were...

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