Nativity scenes remind Christians of the December 25th birth of Jesus

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Nativity scenes like the famous life-sized wood nativity on display at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles are a creative religious reminder of the birth of Jesus as told in the gospels of Luke and Matthew.

Bob and Dolores Hope's hand-carved nativity scene is seen at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles on Thursday, December 22, 2022. The nativity scene was donated to the Los Angeles Archdiocese by the Hope family. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Bob and Dolores Hope’s hand-carved nativity scene is seen at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles on Thursday, December 22, 2022. The nativity scene was donated to the Los Angeles Archdiocese by the Hope family. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

The cathedral’s beautiful nativity, hand-carved in Italy decades ago, is made up of 18 figures in a stable, including the baby Jesus, Mary, and Joseph surrounded by the wise men, shepherds, a camel, oxen, burro, goat and sheep.

It was donated to the Los Angeles Archdiocese in 2013 by the family of Bob and Dolores Hope. The comedian, who died in 2003, and his wife Dolores, who died in 2011, displayed their nativity on a raised platform on the front yard of their Toluca Lake home in the 1950s, where it stood for decades during Advent and the Christmas seasons.

Al Marsella stops to see Bob and Dolores Hope's hand-carved nativity scene, donated to the Los Angeles Archdiocese by the Hope family, at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles on Thursday, December 22, 2022 after attending noon mass. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Al Marsella stops to see Bob and Dolores Hope’s hand-carved nativity scene, donated to the Los Angeles Archdiocese by the Hope family, at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles on Thursday, December 22, 2022 after attending noon mass. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Christmas Mass schedule on Dec. 25:

– 8 and 10 a.m. in English (10 a.m. Mass is live online on cathedral’s website and social media, and  on KABC-7.2 on Spectrum)

– 12:30 p.m. in Spanish (also live online, and on KABC-7.2 on Spectrum)

Mass schedule on Dec. 26:

– 12:30 p.m.

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, 555 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, olacathedral.org

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