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At my Nativity," writes Browne in Religio Medici, "my ascendant was the water signe of Scorpius, I was borne in the Planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that Leaden Planet in me. Out of Novemberland
Caganers: figurines of defecating world leaders in Catalan nativity scenes Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
The greatest of these solemnities is, of course, the Nativity of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
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The children always perform a nativity play every Christmas.

The only painting of his to change hands in recent years was a Nativity, stolen in 1969 from a church in Palermo - where Caravaggio had painted it after having escaped from gaol in Malta.
Pupils have brought some traditional festive cheer to a small rural village, by repairing nativity figures and a crib.
Everything from organ recitals to nativity plays would be under threat.
One of these was to be a church enshrining the scene of the Nativity.
Thus, once again, a moment of rebirth occurs, a new shining nativity of a new soul, not as a physical entity vulnerable to decomposition, but a living memory to the immortal and indestructible nation.
It's a long introduction designed to establish my credibility: that I have no reason to promote religion or, since I'm Jewish, the Christian religion in particular, when I say that the atheists who pushed the Nativity scenes from the park showed the very same stiff-necked intolerance that they accuse religions of. Frank Gruber: Akedism: For Those Who Don't Care If God Exists
Sammy played a donkey in Turton and Edgworth CE Primary School's 1992 nativity.
The display was erected after the county commission allowed a nativity display to go up.
A nativity scene handcrafted by children has been restored to provide a traditional touch to a village's Christmas celebrations.
Many actors made their debuts in nativity plays. Times, Sunday Times
The nativity scene remains in its place until January 6, the Epiphany (the twelfth night after Christmas).
Board meeting or nativity play? The Sun
At our church, a small nativity was set, beautiful, with hand carved figured, painted with extraordinary detail.
But still, they leave, not just with their olivewood nativity sets and their rosaries, but with their faith.
There was a nativity play and a brass band played. Times, Sunday Times
At Christmas, the town was dismayed when a nativity crib was stolen from a pensioner's garden.
It is at pains to point out that much of the ceremony took place during the Christmas vigil and on the feast of the Nativity.
The thirty-strong drawings that will be on display, datable from c.1560 to 1894, include a large Nativity scene by Francois Boucher, and a delicate pen and ink rendition of Susanna and the Elders by Friedrich Sustris.
The lessons appointed for the first Sunday of Advent, however, point not to the nativity, but to the Second Coming.
Mystery still surrounds the theft of a nativity statue set that was stolen from the Catholic church in Horwich on New Year's Day.
It can lead to the creation of entirely new forms of social structure -- the coffee house or the commune -- but these have to be adopted by individuals, consolidated into subcultures, and able to survive a reactionary mainstream that is innately antagonistic to subcultures of alternativity. More Aesthetics
The 'caganer' (literally 'defecator') is a feature of Catalan nativity scenes. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
After four weeks of Advent, we follow with 40 days of Christmas called Christmastide, with the main emphasis on the time between the Nativity of our Lord and the Epiphany. Latest Articles
The souvenir shops, with their olive wood crucifixes and mother of pearl nativity tableaux, are shuttered.
Students were asked to paint a scene depicting the nativity.
Nativity of the Holy Theotokos, founded in August 2008, is named for the birthday of the Virgin Mary, who is called Theotokos in the Orthodox Church. News for WNCT
Many actors made their debuts in nativity plays. Times, Sunday Times
An awkward, gangly youth known to her peers as ‘Storky’, she made her theatrical debut in a nativity aged six and promptly devoted herself to the world of theatre.
That impurity of alternativity is where, for me, there’s a subtle difference between what I’m imagining and the alternative section in the Glasgow Tower Records as I remember it. War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…
Other works attributable to the painter include a Nativity.
If you played Joseph or Mary or an angel at the school nativity, you should not be denied that happy memory.
Tucked away amongst the tasteful hotels and high-walled houses, is the Nativity Church.
Items on show include: Tables, mirrors and a nativity crib.
Another time he painted a scene of the angel appearing to the shepherds to tell them of the Nativity.
The focus of the Nativity Ode isn't even really on the Incarnation that's the theological doctrine of divinity's descent into humanity, how God becomes a mortal.
There is a full programme of events planned when all classes take part in nativity plays and parents and friends are invited to attend.
For us it's not about the Christmas tree or Santa Claus; the nativity is the tradition, it's the symbol of Christmas in Italy," said Michela Rossetti, of OroIncensoeMirra. it, a Web site dedicated to the nativity and the artists who create them. The Art of Nativity:
Then her teachers noticed she wasn't herself and Melissa told me it was because she didn't want to be in the school nativity.
It's the same story with the nativity. Times, Sunday Times
The infants enjoyed their traditional run-up to Christmas in the last few weeks of term with their own version of the nativity, performed for their parents.
St. Francis of Assisi is credited with preparing the first nativity scene in an Italian cave in 1223. Mexico's Christmas Traditions: Posadas, Pastorelas and Nacimientos
Today church pews across Scotland will fill up with worshippers, drawn by faith - or simply tradition - to sing carols and listen to the story of the nativity.
The nativity scene was painted on a billboard. The Sun
This is a noble cause but a quid to watch a nativity play still seems a bit on the steep side. The Sun
-- I never heard that any prodigies preceded or accompanied his nativity; or that the planets, or his mother's cravings during her pregnancy, had sealed him with any particular mark or badge of distinction: but have been well assured he was a fine boy, sucked heartily of his mother's milk, and what they call a thriving child. Life's Progress Through The Passions Or, The Adventures of Natura
Proclus, whose nativity is marked by his horoscope, (A.D. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Other works include The Nativity for soprano and orchestra, sacred choral anthems, hymn preludes for organ and works for trumpet and organ.
The nativity, a scene that invokes images of a child in swaddling clothes, gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
The Community Church Christmas program co-ordinator said the idea of using live animals in the nativity had been suggested by a visiting minister.
Elizabeth, our beloved sister, on a peculiar tenure for the reddendum of a chaplet of white roses at the feast of the nativity of St. John the Baptist at the manor place of Gask. Chronicles of Strathearn
LLPB also offers this "versicle for the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord" mp3 The text is from the Prologue of John, and is for Christmas Day. Archive 2008-12-01
He moved to the city three or four years ago - for reasons he won't disclose, but which might relate to his partner's nativity.
A quarter of people said they thought the Nativity story was largely or wholly untrue. The Sun
Religious elements aside, the story of the nativity has always moved me.
There was a nativity play and a brass band played. Times, Sunday Times
The design of advertisement should develop nativity and propose originality.
At three he was Jesus in a Nativity play; at 10 he had a theatre role, four years later he was on television and at 16 he acted in a short film.
Naturally you will also be banned from smoking in public, owning a Bible, sending Christmas cards that feature the nativity and smacking your children.
Unlike Southwell's four other nativity poems, this one is written in decasyllabic six-ains, which we find frequently in his poetry.
Two schools go head to head in a battle to put on the best nativity play in this brilliantly fun festive film. The Sun
'Certainly, sir,' said Mannering, entering into the simple humour of his landlord, 'I will calculate his nativity according to the rule of the "triplicities," as recommended by Pythagoras, Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01
Valens says that it is evident that the nativity is a notable one because all the triplicity rulers are in their own signs and two of them are angular.
Uranus, which was discovered 11 years after his birth, is prominent in his nativity and there is a powerful resonance between his own chart and that set for the discovery.
Chinamen (cited by Mr Candidate Mulligan) in consequence of defective reunion of the maxillary knobs along the medial line so that (as he said) one ear could hear what the other spoke, the benefits of anesthesia or twilight sleep, the prolongation of labour pains in advanced gravidancy by reason of pressure on the vein, the premature relentment of the amniotic fluid (as exemplified in the actual case) with consequent peril of sepsis to the matrix, artificial insemination by means of syringes, involution of the womb consequent upon the menopause, the problem of the perpetration of the species in the case of females impregnated by delinquent rape, that distressing manner of delivery called by the Brandenburghers STURZGEBURT, the recorded instances of multiseminal, twikindled and monstrous births conceived during the catamenic period or of consanguineous parents — in a word all the cases of human nativity which Aristotle has classified in his masterpiece with chromolithographic illustrations. Ulysses
The Qu'ran has also verses on the Annunciation, Visitation, and Nativity.
The day of his nativity was the Feast of St. Peter and The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 579, December 8, 1832
In 1463 he furnished a cartoon of the Nativity, which was executed in tarsia by Giuliano de Maiano in the sacristy of the cathedral and still exists. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
There are 142 stalls with gift items, children's toys, figures for nativity cribs, Christmas decorations, mulled wine, grilled sausages, and gingerbread.
Mt 19: 28, "regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of His glory"; the resurrection of our bodies is a kind of coming out of the womb of the earth and entering upon immortality, a nativity into another life [Bishop Pearson]. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Or is that the guy who rearranges the Nativity scene to put the donkey and Mary in compromising positions? Think Progress » Pentagon Disinvites Anti-Muslim Evangelist From Prayer Day Event, Palin Calls It A ‘Sad Day’
This is the ninth year of the nativity crib which will be open to the public from 10 pm to 6pm daily until December 23.
In the grotto itself he was well entertained, there are nativity scenes and mechanical polar bears. The Sun
She's got her Nativity play coming up, and she's like, ’Mummy, I'm going to sing on the stage like you.’
The Arsenal squad put on a nativity for local schoolkids. The Sun
It happened one bleak midwinter on the day of our annual farmyard Nativity play. Times, Sunday Times
The couple also had a nativity in a stable, which Mr Hope had built himself with figures of camels, donkeys and the three wise men which were more than two feet tall.
Are all the symbols of a modern Christmas, with its glitz, glamour, over eating, drinking, carousing in keeping with the simple story of the Nativity?
Anon after her nativity, the Holy Ghost showed unto S. Germain of Auxerre how she should serve God holily and virginly, the which thing he told to many. The Golden Legend, vol. 3
This is a noble cause but a quid to watch a nativity play still seems a bit on the steep side. The Sun
There was a nativity play and a brass band played. Times, Sunday Times
Among the numerous paintings in his outdoor gallery were poignant representations of the Crucifixion of Christ, the Nativity, the Three Wise Men, and the Annunciation to the Shepherds.
A quarter of people said they thought the Nativity story was largely or wholly untrue. The Sun
Collect a variety of nativity sets and place them around the house. Christianity Today
Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred… Get thee out of this land, and return unto the land of thy nativity.
For instance, St. Martha was adopted in 1276, St. Wenceslaus in 1298, in 1300 the feasts for the Nativity of John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, and Mary Magdalene were raised to totum duplex. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
And when he had told this to the sovereign bishop the pope, and to the others, and had been in fastings, in prayers, and sought in scriptures and witnesses of old writings, they established this day of the nativity of the glorious Virgin to be hallowed generally of all christian men, but the utas sometime was not hallowed ne kept. The Golden Legend, vol. 5
Trees and lights and little nativity plays, all the stuff that makes your council twitch. Times, Sunday Times
And it has proved a resounding success with a quick uptake of the 50 places available and a waiting list of many others, for whom a nativity play is being organised.
Also featured are Caravaggio's Nativity with San Lorenzo and San Francisco, Cezanne's View of Auvers-sur-Oise and Da Vinci's Madonna of the Yarnwinder.
It crushed the infant - who played an angel in her school nativity play the week before. The Sun
Julia also had slides of three windows in Canterbury Cathedral illustrating the tale of the Three Wise Men and their part in the story of the nativity.
Light plays a key role throughout the altarpiece, and the word's absence perhaps explains why there is no text from the antiphon at all in Daret's Nativity.
We are watching a Nativity play with a definite difference. Times, Sunday Times
We are watching a Nativity play with a definite difference. Times, Sunday Times
He promised that when the war was over he would return and offer his services to free the land of his nativity.
There is no salvation to those that believe not in Christ; that is, say some, since his nativity, and, as divinity affirmeth, before also; which makes me much apprehend the end of those honest worthies and philosophers which died before his incarnation. Religio Medici
The concluding couplet of this stanza tells us what the nativity will do by systematically listing the state of things before the birth and the conditions brought into the world by it.
There are 142 stalls with gift items, children's toys, figures for nativity cribs, Christmas decorations, mulled wine, grilled sausages, and gingerbread.
This Christmas carol is unusual as there is no reference in the lyrics to the nativity. The Origins of Five Christmas Carols | myFiveBest
Candles were added in the 17th century to symbolise the starlit sky on the night of the nativity - before that, they were hung with paper roses and apples to honour Mary.
A nativity scene was set up beneath it.
Collect a variety of nativity sets and place them around the house. Christianity Today
The proem to the Ode ‘On the Morning of Christ's Nativity’ describes the poem as both a ‘hymn’ and a ‘humble ode.’
For some, considering only the cause of filiation, which is nativity, put two filiations in Christ, just as there are two nativities. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
To have many planets debilitated in this way in a nativity is considered a sign of obscurity and low birth.
The children always perform a nativity play every Christmas.
What we're seeing in the present is the oppression, the hunting down of believers, whether it is the Muslim community who feel every day that they open the newspaper, 'Oh my gosh, it's anti-Islam again', or the Christian BA worker who is not allowed to wear a cross, or the school play that is not allowed to be called the nativity play. Is religion a force for good... or would we be happier without God?
There was a nativity play and a brass band played. Times, Sunday Times
He was delighted when Edinburgh Council agreed to accept the nativity scene sculpture and to display it in such a prominent position.
At Christmas, the town was dismayed when a nativity crib was stolen from a pensioner's garden.
My father compounded with my mother under the dragons tail, and my nativity was under ursa major; so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. Act I. Scene II. King Lear
Another teacher had spoken of an angel at the Bethlehem nativity, who had taken pity on a tiny fir-tree, and had commanded a star cluster to rest on its boughs.
The Putz -- a German word for "decorate" -- tells the story of the birth of Christ in a more elaborate way than the typical nativity scene. Daytona Beach News-Journal Online
The symbolic suitability of dark and dismal weather, however, is not the main reason Mary Shelley selected this particular month for the nativity of Victor's charnel creature.
A couple that vandalized a nativity display got to march through town with the donkey.
It crushed the infant - who played an angel in her school nativity play the week before. The Sun
For just as he is still daily immolated in a mystical manner whilst we show forth his death upon the altar, so also does he seem to be newly born whilst we annually commemorate his nativity.
Yep, the guy behind this quote is the guy who attacked the Tussaud's nativity in December last year.
Daley was enrolled in the elementary school at the Nativity Church, under the strict discipline of the nuns.
In view of the manner of his death it is curious to note that his nativity has no planets in water signs.
Other works include The Nativity for soprano and orchestra, sacred choral anthems, hymn preludes for organ and works for trumpet and organ.
My last memory of her was seeing her perform in the school nativity. The Sun
The show stealers of the nativity were the two word perfect girls who played the innkeepers, and the little lad playing Herod.
That Charles the Fifth5 was crowned upon the day of his nativity, it being in his own power so to order it, makes no singular animadversion: but that he should also take King Francis6 prisoner upon that day, was an unexpected coincidence, which made the same remarkable. Letter to a Friend
The Qu'ran has also verses on the Annunciation, Visitation, and Nativity.
Dot can't bring herself to attend the Nativity play. The Sun
Trees and lights and little nativity plays, all the stuff that makes your council twitch. Times, Sunday Times
It’s the fact that Fopp has succeeded because it stepped outside the conventional indie record shop model of pure alternativity that intrigues me. War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…
Hundreds of children have been visiting Roves Farm near Swindon to take part in the nativity with a cast of live animals.
Clay modeller Joe Camilleri is well known for his nativity representations, cribs and bas-reliefs in which he takes great care with details and style, especially in his figurines.
In the grotto itself he was well entertained, there are nativity scenes and mechanical polar bears. The Sun
Lord God unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Those whom God takes into covenant with himself he distinguishes from the children of this world; they are effectually called out of the state, out of the land, of their nativity; they must sit loose to the world, and live above it and every thing in it, even that in it which is most dear to them, and must trust Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
The figure's thick, apparently woolen clothing offers a striking contrast to the fine, silken garments of the Virgin in the Nativity scene.
So I sulked throughout the entire carol service and nativity play, and stomped around behaving like my own little storm cloud.
Yes folks its that time of year again, whereby as a dutiful parent I oblige my responsibility to dispense with two hours of valuable time to go and watch the Junior School Nativity play.
Pilgrims are gathering in Bethlehem's manger square, near the church of the nativity, which is built over the grotto where it is believed Jesus was born, a belief not all share. CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2005
And any and every discrimination against any class, whether on account of color, race, nativity, sex, property, culture, can but imbitter and disaffect that class, and thereby endanger the safety of the whole people. An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting
Imagine a light-up choirboy from a suburban Nativity scene.
From the advent crown suspended above the nave to the metal nativity figures which are assembled in time for the Crib Service on Christmas Eve, there is always something seasonal to enjoy in the Minster.
He goes on to provide background information on his mother's role as superintendent of the Sunday school and as organizer of the annual nativity scene performed on the church lawn.
These details are not mentioned by the Gospels, but are an invariable feature of every icon of the Nativity.
Silverman confirms that during this time of year, Arles was awash in santons, crèches, and performances of pastorales, Nativity plays.
In this seat of felicity is every enjoyment which fancy can form, or friendship, with affluence, bestow; but still my mind frequently returns to the happy shades of my nativity. The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact
Tots at the nursery had their first taste of acting when they staged a nativity with a modern twist.
But the most tedious being is that which can unwish itself, content to be nothing, or never to have been, which was beyond the malcontent of Job, who cursed not the day of his life, but his nativity; content to have so far been, as to have a title to future being, although he had lived here but in an hidden state of life, and as it were an abortion. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
Mr. Hoepfner however thinks the dispersion of the diamond by this great heat should be called a phosphorescent evaporation of it, rather than a combustion; and from its other analogies of crystallization, hardness, transparency, and place of its nativity, wishes again to replace it amongst the precious stones. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
It's the same story with the nativity. Times, Sunday Times
This is a noble cause but a quid to watch a nativity play still seems a bit on the steep side. The Sun
We act out the nativity and sing about 50 Christmas carols, it's lots of fun.
Also straight ahead a Christmas scene for those with a sweet tooth, the world's largest nativity made out of chocolate.
We have no nationality, borders or motherlands or homelands or fatherlands or nativity.
Sometimes a menorah is displayed in order to make a Nativity scene "balanced", especially when secular symbols such as Santa Claus, reindeer and a holiday tree are added. Sound Politics: "Christmas trees are going back up at Sea-Tac airport."
After we three are home and warm and mama is sprawled asleep, the kid builds a shoebox nativity and the cats and I make a heap.
It was a keen disappointment, as I was hoping to see both little N. Aeschylus and Miss Fiske for the very first time, and I wanted the little shaver to play Baby Jesus in our traditional Nativity pantomime tableau.
At my nativity, my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpio. Religio Medici
Many actors made their debuts in nativity plays. Times, Sunday Times
At one end of the square stands the town's main mosque, at the other the Church of the Nativity, in which a subterranean grotto marks the place of Christ's birth.
Many actors made their debuts in nativity plays. Times, Sunday Times
This nativity has many indications of great success.
The Arsenal squad put on a nativity for local schoolkids. The Sun
This time he was putting his heart into playing an angel in a Nativity play at the local church.
He started by examining the story of the nativity, sorting out the account given in The Bible from the mythology that was added later.
What a truly great mystery is the Nativity of our Lord!
Each of the three movements ‘depicts’ an episode in the life of Christ: Nativity, Crucifixion and Resurrection.
The souvenir shops, with their olive wood crucifixes and mother of pearl nativity tableaux, are shuttered.
Custer has written what might be called a syncretic pop-culture myth, with a knowing eye for the different Biblical Nativity accounts read Matthew and Luke sometime. StarTribune.com rss feed
On the scrap heap at thirteen, and after my magnificent Herod in the nativity not two years previous.
Kenny remarked that the squire by reason of his nativity was a fool. Kenny
Two schools go head to head in a battle to put on the best nativity play in this brilliantly fun festive film. The Sun
In Matthew's Nativity, the angelic Annunciation is made to Joseph while Luke's is to Mary.
Most readers may be surprised to learn that Mark and John don't mention the nativity at all and Matthew and Luke were not written until around 80 to 85AD.
In the box was another treasure, remarkably untouched: our nativity set.
Was there a moon in the sky during the night of the nativity?
The play group manager says it was the first nativity in more than 30 years.
It was lovely to hear and see youngsters enjoying themselves doing a Nativity.
My last memory of her was seeing her perform in the school nativity. The Sun
One of her daughters is in a Nativity play this afternoon. Times, Sunday Times
We do have a new development now in the situation at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
This brief Nativity poem has just 40 words, divided into 8 lines of iambic trimeter. 2008 December 10 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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This delightful carol, often called The Polish Carol, tells the story of the nativity in a simple, childlike manner.
Jeremiah wondered how many Brotherhood artists had attended the crucifixion, or sketched pictures of the nativity.
A solar return occurs when the sun in the birth nativity returns to its original position, on the birthday of the individual in question.
A silver star pointing to the nativity site bears the Latin words Al-Ahram Weekly Online
However, the nativity nabber had drawn horns on him. CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2006
But this year, residents are fuming after drunken pranksters stole the nativity figures.
So what part did you have in the school nativity play? Times, Sunday Times
The actors comprised mainly of children who portrayed the various nativity characters.
Dotted along the road were many little religious shrines illuminated by flickering candles and featuring nativity scenes.
Staffer labelled 'grinch' over Xmas memo A DEPARTMENTAL officer was a "grinch" for writing a memo suggesting Centrelink and Medicare offices should not display nativity scenes at NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
Madame Tussaud's waxworks has been exhibiting a Nativity scene that depicts the footballer David Beckham as Joseph and his popstar wife, Victoria, as the Virgin Mary.
Dot can't bring herself to attend the Nativity play. The Sun
Candles were added in the 17th century to symbolise the starlit sky on the night of the nativity - before that, they were hung with paper roses and apples to honour Mary.
In most Mexican homes the principal holiday adornment is el Nacimiento (Nativity scene). Feliz navidad: making merry in Mexico

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