theology

accounts of Jesus’ birth and childhood found in the first two chapters of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke

 infancy Narratives

2\.   The infancy narratives emphasize who Jesus is – the Son of God, descended from the family line of David, who was of the line of

Abraham

where it is proclaimed that Jesus is the promised Savior, and he will carry out God’s plan of salvation

infancy Narratives

  The laws of **-----** required that a firstborn son be consecrated to the Lord after his birth.

Moses

**-**To make sacred for God

consecrate

What a mother was to do forty days after the birth of a son

offer a sacrifice

**-**Name of the man in the temple who filled with faith took the infant Jesus in his arms and praised God.

Simeon

**-**a wooden box that held the tablets of the Ten Commandments

**ark of the covenant**

Temple’s holiest, inner-most room

holy of holies

Considered to be a last remnant of the Temple

Wailing wall, or western wall-

The Gospel where we read of the young Jesus, so interested in his faith, that he stays behind in the Temple while his family journeys home after Passover

Luke

Gospel that begins with a prologue in which we read that the Word, Jesus Christ, who was with God and is God, took on our human nature and lived among us as a human being

John

**-**Words used by the Gospel writer John to signal that a great new creation begins in Jesus Christ.

in the begining

the first joyful mystery

The annunciation

the second joyful mystery

the visitation

the third joyful mystery

the birth of Jesus

the fourth joyful mystery

the presentation of Jesus

the fifth joyful mystery

the finding of Jesus in the temple