Welcome to the Church of Nativity Family

Since its dedication on October 21, 1989, our community has faithfully committed to our mission: We are a praying, learning and caring community fulfilling the mission God gives us in baptism by our worship in faith, by our witness in hope, and by our service in love. We invite you to journey with our community in Christ, thus will be said, “Day by Day the Lord added to their number” (Acts 2:47). Our Nativity School is led by faith-filled, loving professional staff who provide not only excellence in academics for our children so that they may excel in life, but help cultivate and form our children to come to know, love and serve God through the gifts God has blessed each of them. We are a Dynamic Parish and look forward to walking with you and your family to pray, worship, and give thanks to God for the many blessings He has bestowed upon us. In joy and in sorrow, we will live out together the witness of faith, hope and charity. At the Church of the Nativity, there will always be room “in the inn” (Luke 2,7).

Reflections

Why should we be thankful? Indeed we should be grateful that we have been alive and lived in a world so beautiful and rich in manifesting the grandeur of our Creator Himself. Furthermore, thankful because by knowing that all these will end, we are given the chance to prepare for its eventual coming and prepare it with joy and hope, virtues that our Christian faith graciously endowed us with during our lifetime. Believing that life on earth is but a passing and transitory phase into eternal life allows us to be thankful as well as truly prepared for the end times. 

How are we, therefore, prepare ourselves for this reality whose uncertainty of the mode and time of its occurrence is most certain in the world today? At this present moment what comes to my mind is what we should do during this year of the preparing us for the Jubilee year: be a witness to Jesus in the world today and this begins by knowing our faith more seriously and living it joyfully as well as sharing our faith with others lovingly and more generously.

All these suggestions are made in general terms, but today I would like to begin with a program of knowing our faith more seriously. There are many ways to know our faith. The first is having the important documents that we should own: the Bible, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and other important church teachings both universal and local. Second, reading our Bible and the Catechism. Third, studying them individually and in our families, or in study groups already existing in our community. After knowing our faith deeply, we can share our knowledge by practicing joyfully what we know in our relationships with others. Indeed, with the knowledge of our faith that we would share with others, we can be living witnesses to Jesus in the world today, we can be true and living agents of evangelization while preparing ourselves for the end times and even our death with joy, hope and love.