Nativity Dolomite White Series, Shepherd with Hat

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The Shepherd with Hat of the Nativity Dolomite White Series draws us into the mystery of the Nativity. This is but one piece in a beautiful, 15-piece crèche (nativity set) fashioned with faith in a monk’s cell in Europe. You might consider acquiring this Shepherd with Hat (or any of the other Nativity pieces) year by year, until, one day, your Nativity is finally complete in your office, home, school, or church!

A Dolomite Crèche from Europe – A Labor of Faith, Hope and Love

This Shepherd stands 5.1 inches tall. All 15 pieces of this crèche are fashioned of dolomite stone, harvested locally from the earth, and handcrafted individually by members of a monastic community in Europe. Each sister of this community dedicates herself in her own hermitage makes her own specific contribution to completion of each nativity piece. She accompanies every piece with the blessing of her contemplative prayer. Each finished piece is, then, indeed a labor of faith, hope, and love!

For Home, Office, Church, and School – An Heirloom-Quality Nativity Set

This entire crèche enhances with beauty and serenity any place where family and friends come together during the Christmas season, home, school, office or church. In many places in Europe a crèche, large or small, is prominently displayed in public places such as banks, restaurants,business offices, hospitals and care facilities.

May your church, home, office, or school be graced and blessed with a crèche that bespeaks our Christian faith and its traditions with aesthetic and theological integrity. Our heritage and culture prompts us to integrate our religious faith into our daily life. This crèche – of most precious heirloom quality – will be treasured and prominently displayed for many generation after generation to come!

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Excerpt from the Angelus message of Pope Benedict XVI (Advent 2005)

To set up the crib at home can be a simple but effective way of presenting the faith and transmitting it to one’s children. The manger helps us to contemplate the mystery of God’s love who revealed himself in the poverty and simplicity of the Bethlehem cave.

Saint Francis of Assisi was so overwhelmed by the mystery of the Incarnation, that he wanted to present it again in Greccio with the living manger, thus becoming the initiator of a long popular tradition which still keeps its value for evangelization today.

The crib can help us, in fact, to understand the secret of the true Christmas, because it speaks of humility and the merciful goodness of Christ, who “though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor”. (II Corinthians 8:9)  His poverty enriches those who embrace it and Christmas brings joy and peace to those who, as the shepherds, accept in Bethlehem the words of the angel: “And this will be a sign for you: you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger”. (Luke 2:12)

It continues to be a sign also for us, men and women of the 21st century. There is no other Christmas.

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