Guided Walking Live Nativity on Campus
Join us for a Journey to Bethlehem (a guided walking Live Nativity) on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023.
Join the Saint Francis University community on campus for a Journey to Bethlehem (a guided walking Live Nativity) on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. This special event is in celebration of the 800th Anniversary of Saint Francis Portraying the First Ever Nativity Scene at Greccio. Four performances of the journey Mary and Joseph took to Bethlehem in this living nativity will be performed by members of the SFU community.
Details: Friday, Dec. 1 from 7 -8:30 P.M. (start times every 30 minutes).
The evening will include a mix of indoor and outdoor prayer service beginning in the Science Center. Collections of canned goods and goodwill offerings will be gathered Goodwill and the Dorothy Day Outreach Center
For more information contact Melissa Garrity at mgarrity@francis.edu.
If you would like to help, please fill out the following interest survey: https://forms.office.com/r/2aSuzeCfXb
About Saint Francis of Assisi and the First Nativity Scene
It’s a well-known origin story: how the young and wealthy Francis of Assisi freely abandoned his noble patrimony to serve Christ’s Church as a poor, itinerant preacher. One of the world’s most beloved saints, the founder of the Franciscan order cared deeply for God’s creation. He also loved Christmas, the feast of the Nativity of Our Lord.
St. Francis’ meditations on the life of Christ led him to create the first-ever Nativity scene in Greccio, Italy, in 1223.
