Family Theater: The Nativity

Family Theater presents Anne Blythe, June Haber, Jeff Chandler, and Nan Merriman. The Mutual Network in cooperation with Family Theater presents Transcribed the Nativity. As a special feature for this Christmas Eve, the Catholic Daughters of America have cooperated with Family Theater for this presentation of the Christmas Story, starring Anne Blythe and Jeff Chandler with Nan Merriman as soloist.

June Haber will be your hostess. Christmas, what associations in the very word, and this not only to the devout who love, reverence, and believe in the holy infant, in his divinity and in his redemptive mission, but to the entire world.

As if for one day in the year everyone in the world became more generous, more kindly, if you will, more Christian. A day of giving and receiving presence, of Santa Claus, of the Christmas tree, in the family dinner, a time of arms giving, the feast of childhood and the day of forgiving injuries and the reconciliation between enemies. But do we understand we mobs of frantic people

in the streets and in the stores, just what it is we are celebrating and why? There are many who know the answer, yet it isn't what we know, but what we realize that moves the will. Let us consider the importance to the whole human race of the birth of Christ.

The angels rebelled, and I cast them from the imperion of heaven. And shall I show more mercy to thee? Thou hast eaten of the tree of life, whereof I commanded that thou shouldst not eat.

Curseth, then, be the earth in thy work. Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth, and In the sweat of thy face shall thou eat thy bread, Nature of which I may be Lord shall rebel, For thou art no longer child of heaven but slave of doom, To toil until thou return to the earth whence thou was taken,