Yesterday the Pope recalled that "Immediately after the feast of the Immaculate Conception, many families should begin to prepare their nativity scenes, as if to relive, together with Mary, those days filled with trepidation which preceded the birth of Jesus."
He stressed the importance of the family Nativity scene, saying that bringing one into the home "can be a simple but efficacious way to present and transmit the faith to children."
"A nativity scene", he pointed out, "can help us understand the true secret of Christmas, because it speaks of the humility and the merciful goodness of Christ, Who 'though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor'."
Today is the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. 
