The Birth of Jesus

In those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. Mary gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger because there was no place for them in the inn. The shepherds returned glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen as it had been told them. Jesus is circumcised and named. And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. When inspired by the Spirit, he came into the temple and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him according to the