The Nativity
Heaven Speaks Today, No. 3

“Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son,
and his name shall be called Emmanuel.”
Isaias 7:14

The first Christmas
Veronica: I see a hole dug deep within a hill. The entrance is very large. I can see a Lady sitting on the ground. The ground looks dusty and hard. There are some animals around Her; there are three sheep. The Lady gathered the lambs closer for warmth about the little figure lying on a mound of straw or dried grass.

There is a man—it must be Saint Joseph, dressed in brown cloth robe, looking down at the Infant. The Infant Child is very small, wrapped in cream-colored sheeting. The Lady, our Blessed Mother, was pushing the sheep closer. A large animal with large horns and tough-looking brown skin, the size of a cow, was standing near the
entrance.

It is very dark in the cave, but there seems to be a light all around them. The light seems to be coming from the air. There are two very large angels behind the man. But I don’t think the Lady, our Blessed Mother, is aware of this because She keeps looking down.

Happy holy poverty
Oh, how poor they look! But they look so happy. Our Lady is sitting straight on the hard ground, in the dust. It must have been very difficult for Her to have brought forth the Child into the world, but She looks so happy!

Our Lady: “The food We ate was hard, but the light was upon Us and We accepted all with joy.”

Veronica: I could see that Our Lady had a piece of what appeared to be dried fish, and that it was most difficult to chew. Joseph had a dark, almost black section of what appeared to be bread in his hand. It was not a wide loaf, but quite flat, like baked without rising or something. It also looked hard and dry.

Hark, the herald angels sing
I can hear music. Our Lady and Joseph are smiling because they can hear the music. The cave was filled with the many voices of little children in song. The voices are singing, “Hail, Little Savior dressed in the light. Born to join in Heaven’s fight.”

Our Lady: “Many came bearing gifts, but we looked down into their hearts and sent them on their way.”

Veronica: Then someone, a man in a white gown, poked his head through the opening into the cave, but he didn’t hear the music or see the angels. (It would have been evident in his face.) The man started to talk to Joseph. I could not catch his words.

I am convinced it is only by the special grace given by the Father that one can share in a supernatural manifestation.

God in the flesh
The face of the Infant Child was most unusual, for he had looked so young, and yet His face held the knowledge and wisdom of the ages. Mary looks so lovingly happy. But there is also a tinge of wistful sadness, for She knows already the path ahead, the sorrows She will face in the future, for it has been made known to Her. Mary said, in the softest of tones:

Our Lady: “Behold the handmaid of the Lord. Do with Us as You will.”
The angel came to Mary’s side and said:

Angel: “This Child will be nourished by the light.”
All above from December 24, 1970

Three wise men
Veronica: There’s a beautiful big star, and the rays of the star come all the way down, right to the door of the cave.

Now I’m looking down from the hill, and I see—I see two men walking and another one riding, but he’s being—seems to be carried on a board. And they’re coming up. And they’ve got another board they’re carrying, and it looks like a box on the board with some kind of a golden cover on it.

And now the two men who are walking are dressed very elegantly, with—they have these velvet robes on. And they’re coming to the cave. And they’re coming in, and—oh, and they enter the cave and the first two dropped down to their knees.

A teaching example
And they’re opening the boxes, and Our Lady is looking at them. And they’re going—and they’re trying to—oh, they are emptying the boxes at the feet of the Baby.

And Our Lady smiled and She shook Her head, no. She shook Her head, no.

And they put everything—it looked like they were jewels; I can see pearls, and I can see green, glass-like, looks like glass-like
stones, and red ones, and—oh, they look very pretty.

And Our Lady shook Her head, no. And they put them back in the box. And the man in this very deep burgundy-looking robe, he handed the box back then to the man.

And now—I know, I can tell by looking at them that they’re kings or something. They, they’re very wealthy people.

And now they’re backing away without turning their backs. They keep bowing down.

Frankincense and myrrh
And they have—they left something else, another little box. But now they want to light it, and there’s smoke coming out of it. I can smell it, like coming out of it. But it smells very strange. It’s not like perfume. It smells like—I don’t know how to explain it—like herbs, like. And then Our Lady allowed that.

But I sit there, and it’s—the odor of it, it’s so strange. It’s—oh, I don’t know. It’s like—I don’t know what it is; I never smelled anything like that before. And Our Lady smiled.

Detachment is golden
And then the men backed off, and one left a little sack. And when it came down—it must have coins or something in it because I can hear, you know, like, like it was fifty-cent pieces clanging. And Our Lady shook Her head, no, no.

And the man picked them up and he backed—and the three of them now are going out of the cave. But they haven’t turned their backs. They keep bowing and bowing. And now Our Lady looked down to Jesus, and She’s bending over, and She’s smiling.

Now it’s getting very, very dark, and I can’t see anything any more.
And Our Lady now—oh, Our Lady is appearing now outside the door. She’s standing, and She’s talking about the meat. Before the Feast Day of Her Son, no meat, She says.

Our Lady: “No meat before the Feast Day. It is only a small act of penance.”
All above from December 24, 1972

Spotless receptacle
“The Eternal Father chose My Mother before Her beginning on earth....My Mother was conceived without sin; She knew not the stigma of sin, the original sin of mankind from the first parents. She was destined from the beginning of time, in the knowledge of the Eternal Father, to be a spotless receptacle for My entrance into your world.”
Jesus, May 14, 1977

Ever-Virgin
“My Mother is not and was not an ordinary woman. My Mother was ever-Virgin. My Mother bore Me forth without pain and knowledge of My entrance until the sound of the babe awakened Her and Her spouse, Her pure spouse, Joseph. My Mother knew not man before or after My birth. My Mother, as was written in the Book of old, was ever-Virgin.”
Jesus, May 14, 1977