Nativity Grande Creche White Series, Infant Jesus

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The Infant Jesus of the Nativity Grande Creche White Series depicts the central mystery of the Nativity. Fashioned with faith by cloistered sisters of a monastic workshop in Western Europe, this poignant baby statuette is one of 18 pieces in a most exquisite nativity set (or crèche). This Infant Jesus is the central piece to acquire, perhaps along with the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph (see below). With these pieces in hand, you can begin adding to your Grande Crèche year by year, whether you are getting it for your own or another family, or you are donating it to your church. Eventually you can display your complete Grande Crèche in its entirety during the Christmas season in your home, office, workplace, or church!

The Grande Crèche (White) – A Baby Jesus Fashioned with Faith, Hope and Love

The Infant Jesus measures 5 inches in length. All eighteen pieces of the Grande Crèche (white) are a mixture of dolomite stone and resin which is then hand-finished in the monastery workshop. Each sister prayerfully undertakes a specific assigned task to further the final completion of each and every piece. The Grande Crèche (white) is, then, culturally authentic as well as an authentic labor of love (and faith and hope)!

The Grande Crèche (white) – A True Heirloom for Many Years to Come

Every Christmas season the Grande Crèche (white) on display will radiate beauty, serenity, and meaning in the places where families, friends, and persons of faith gather. In Europe during every season of Christmas, small and large crèches are easily to be found in many public places. May your home, office, workplace, school and church receive an heirloom-quality crèche such as this, a crèche which bespeaks with theological and artistic clarity the one, true “reason for the season”! This Infant Jesus and the rest of the Grande Crèche (white) is a gift of such lasting heirloom quality that it will cherished and display it prominently for many, many years to come!

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Excerpt from the Advent 2005 Angelus message of Pope Benedict XVI

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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