Luke 2:8-18 8. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the fields, keeping watch over their flocks by night. 9. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid. 10. And the angel said unto them,
The Annunciation She’s not much. That’s what the other wives in the village say behind her back whenever they see her going about her daily tasks. She’s younger than they are, and although she’s been married to the carpenter for almost two years, she hasn’t given him a child. They assume she’s barren, for the
THE OTHER SHEPHERD Avram was terrified when the light and the noise burst out of the night sky. He was eight years old, and his uncle Samael had taken him along for the first time to tend the sheep for a full night’s watch in the hills above Bethlehem. Avram had been helping to look
We left the museum and wandered into the Mercato Nuovo, so called because its current loggia only dates to the 16th century. It’s been a marketplace at least since the 11th century, when it served Florence’s fledgling trade in finished cloth. Nowadays, of course, it caters exclusively to tourists, since that’s the biggest game in