Solemnity
Nativity of the Lord
- Feast day
- December 25
Life
Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, born of the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem. This central feast of the Christian year proclaims the mystery of the Incarnation: God becoming human for the salvation of the world. Celebrated in Rome by the fourth century, it opens the Christmas season and is prepared for by the weeks of Advent.
The saint of the day, every day
Bosko shows you the saint the Church honors today, every day — their story, today's feast, and where they fall in your tradition's liturgical calendar, so a feast that matters to you never quietly slips past.