Name Above All Names (O Antiphons)
This name which the Lord gave through Isaiah for the virgin's son means "God with us."
What is Emmanuel?
This gospel writer gives a genealogy of Jesus ending with, “the son of Adam, the son of God.”
Who is Luke?
In Revelation 22, Jesus describes himself as this kind of a morning star.
What is bright?
This man rejoiced at meeting his cousin while still in his mother’s womb.
Who is John the Baptist?
A generous gift tossed through a chimney (or perhaps a window) is said to have landed in this object.
What is a stocking?
This Hebrew term for "Lord" or "Master" applies to Jesus, denoting His divine authority as seen on Sinai and in the Sermon on the Mount.
What is Adonai?
Matthew segments his genealogy of the Christ into three periods; the first goes from Abraham to David, and the second from David to this event.
What is the deportation to Babylon?
The wise men observed a star doing these three things.
What are rising, going before them, and resting?
Matthew quotes the prophet Hosea who said that God would call His Son out of this place.
Where is Egypt?
The shape and color of this traditional children’s treat are used to teach lessons about Jesus.
What is the candy cane?
This title comes from Isaiah 11, in which we read that "a shoot from the stump" shall come forth and bear fruit, becoming the signal and hope for all peoples.
What is the Rod (or Root) of Jesse? (Latin: Radix Jesse)
Matthew’s genealogy includes five women; four of them listed by name plus this woman.
Who is the wife of Uriah?
The chief priests and scribes quoted this prophet when telling Herod where the king of the Jews was to be born.
Who is Micah?
When Herod killed the baby boys of Bethlehem, Matthew says Jeremiah’s prophecy is fulfilled about this woman weeping for her children.
Who is Rachel?
In the classic poem, “’Twas the Night Before Christmas,” this forms a wreath around the head of Saint Nicholas.
What is the smoke of a pipe?
In Isaiah 22, the Lord gives this item/title and states, “He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.”
What is the Key of (the House of) David? (Latin: Clavis David)
Each of Matthew’s three genealogical periods from Abraham to the Christ contain this many generations.
What is fourteen?
In his discussion of resurrected bodies, Paul writes to the Corinthians that star differs from star in this aspect.
What is glory?
Jesus compares his generation to children sitting and calling to each other, “We played” this instrument “for you, but you did not dance.”
What is a flute?
In the classic carol, “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,” the nations are called to rise and join this.
What is "the triumph of the skies?"
This title comes from Zechariah’s prophecy in Luke 1 that “the sunrise shall visit us from on high.”
What is the Dayspring or Rising Sun? (Latin: Oriens)
Luke’s genealogy is placed immediately after his account of this event prior to the beginning of Jesus’s ministry.
What is the baptism of Jesus?
Numbers 24 records the prophecy of this man: “I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near: a star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel.”
Who is Balaam?
These are the four brothers of Jesus named by the offended Nazarites in Mark 6.
Who are James, Joses, Judas, and Simon?
The classic carol “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow uses as its refrain these words taken from Luke 2:14.
What is "peace on earth, goodwill to men?"