Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic Catholic where real faith meets real life.

Hello and blessed Christmas to you I hope you've had a good Christmas day.

The Sree family had a great adventure

for the first time our whole family

went to midnight mask together this year.

Yep, me and my eight kids,

it was pretty awesome from 17 years old down to my year and a half year old

Eleanor, and they all did pretty well. Only one child fell asleep, little Kiara, my three and a half

year old. She was sprawled out there on a pew. It was like a little manger for her. She slept for most of

mass, but the rest of them hung in there and they were so excited for Christmas. And so I have a special treat for all of you, a little Christmas gift. This is a special

addition of all things Catholic. I'm going to share with you a reflection on Mary

at the Nativity. What was Mary going through in this great Christmas story? What was she thinking about?

What was going on on the inside? The Bible doesn't give us a lot of information, but there's

one little line I want us to consider that comes in Luke's Gospel, chapter verse 19 and I'm going to share with you a

reflection that I recorded a few weeks ago when I was in Israel leading my Holy Land

pilgrimage and this was recorded right there outside of Bethlehem in the Shepherds fields.

So here we go, a reflection on Mary at the Nativity.

Well as we're standing here in the Shepherds Fields outside of Bethlehem in the Holy Land,

I want to reflect on Mary at the Nativity.

Now have you all gotten Christmas cards where there's a religious art picture of Mary at the

nativity?

What does Mary look like?

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