Traditional Nativity Scenes

[johnq]

Friends,
This may not be the place to post this but I need an opinion. I bought a Little People Nativity set for my son who is 2 for christmas. Is it okay to use it all year? If yes, any suggestions?
blessings,
Eli

Yes, yes and yes.

Children love seeing the baby Jesus.

BTW. It was kind of interesting to see this post, since I posting about the nativity on my blog about the same time. The modesty of the baby Jesus issue came up, with some strong opinions.

The Nativity Of Our Lord In Art

 

[MarieVeronica]

I bought a Little People Nativity set for my son who is 2 for christmas. Is it okay to use it all year? If yes, any suggestions?
blessings,
Eli

Hi Eli. I am glad to hear that you have bought a present for your son, which will teach him the truth about Christmas. You are instilling it… early. Good for you! You may even want to make a custom of reading the Gospel accounts of Our Lord’s Birth (my favorite is Luke 2:1-20)… for your son… while he plays with the set. He can make believe that he is right there, in Bethlehem on Jesus’ birthday!

I’ve seen the “Little People” line of toys. They are very cute. I haven’t seen the Nativity set… but I’m sure it’s done, respectfully. Nothing like that awful “Dog Nativity” which I mentioned, above.

God bless and a Merry Christmas!

 

[eli1118]

MarieVeronica,
I am glad that you think it is okay for my son to have the Nativity set and that he can play with it all the time. I really want him to love the Lord as much as I do and to know that Christmas is about him and not presents!!!
Have a Blessed Christmas
Eli

 

[JPUSC]

This is slightly off point, but Catholic dogma holds that the Blessed Virgin remained a virgin before, during, and after the birth of Christ. Thus, there was no rupture of the membrane. Moreover, Catholics have traditionally held that the Blessed Mother was spared the pangs of childbirth (associated with original sin and Eve’s punishment in the Garden of Eden). Thus, it is completely plausible that the Blessed Mother would have been physically capable of kneeling in adoration before the Christ Child.

In addition, I might point out that the Blessed Mother in private revelations has indicated that she is very displeased by depictions of the Christ Child without any clothes on and never would have left Him exposed like that.

I’m curious, which private revelation was it?