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Author: Pflaum

The Visit of the Magi, the wise men, or the three kings has become inexorably bonded to the Christmas story. What Nativity scene would be complete without Melchior, Caspar, and […]
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Sometimes your schedule doesn’t exactly match ours. These lessons will help you if you begin earlier or end later than our lessons do. Seeds Early Start Lessons (English) Early Start […]
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It’s time to assess your students to see how much they learned and retained through this year. Post (or Final) Tests are available in both English and Spanish for Good News, Venture, […]
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We tend to think that everything involving Joseph in the infancy of Jesus happened all at once, but that isn’t the case. Even the Scriptures let us know that the […]
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Many images of Saint Joseph show him carrying a white lily. For someone who was a manual laborer, a delicate flower seems like an odd choice of imagery, but there […]
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We have been told repeatedly that Joseph was a poor man. In fact, except for his marriage to Mary, that’s probably the one thing that we all swear as fact. […]
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Many significant sites from the life of Jesus await a pilgrim to the Holy Land. One can walk the Way of the Cross, visit the Upper Room, peer into the […]
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It’s a no-brainer, right? Joseph was a carpenter. The Gospels tell us he was a carpenter. Tradition tells us he was a carpenter. End of discussion. Not so fast. The […]
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It’s hard not to bring our own cultural experiences to our vision of Joseph. When we combine that with the gloss of theology that has built up over the centuries, […]
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Our vision of the Nativity assumes that the shepherds were the first to see Jesus. Like the ideas that Jesus was born in a stable/shed or that Joseph acted as […]
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