The Third Sorrow: the Loss of the Christ Child
In the Third Sorrow, the faithful join in spirit with the sorrowful Virgin, as she returned to Jerusalem to search for her missing Son.
6. St Joseph and the Christ Child
“We have found the one about whom Moses in the Law and also the Prophets wrote – Jesus the son of Joseph, from Nazareth.” (John 1:45)
Jesus Christ, Son of Man
25th December “The Son of Man has come to seek out and to save what was lost.” (Luke 19:10) The birth of Jesus on Christmas Day brought many of the Old Testament prophecies about the Messiah to fulfilment. As the carol has it, the hopes and fears