Saint Joseph's Church will be a chapel and part of Saint Olav's in Jyväskylä.
The newly acquired church building in Kuopio will be consecrated a Catholic church on Saturday, May 3rd, 2014 at 1 p.m., Catholic Information Service reports. Mass has already been celebrated at the church in Männistö in Kuopio, but now the date for the consecration of the building. It was already known that the new church would be dedicated to Saint Joseph.
Saint Joseph's Church will be a chapel and part of Saint Olav's in Jyväskylä.
The "monks" of this film clip, however, are dressed in brown habits with hoods, which suggests they might instead be Capuchin Friars (Ordo Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum or OFMCap). Trappist monks traditionally wear grey habits.
Jesus and his birth in Bethlehem have been portrayed innumerably often in new and various ways. A nativity scene or crib consists of statues not only of the baby Jesus but also of the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph, shepherds and their sheep, angels, the wise men, an ox and an ass. In fact, many Italian cribs depict the entire town of Bethlehem, its houses, people, animals and all. Jesus is born among the people.
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