Rose Pacatte (Books)

Rose Pacatte Books

Rose Pacatte, FSP, directs the Pauline Center for Media Studies in Los Angeles. She is a distinguished national and international media literacy specialist and an award-winning author whose books explore the intersection of Scripture and film. Pacatte also contributes a film and television column to St. Anthony Messenger magazine and writes regularly for various Catholic educational and catechetical publications. Her work consistently examines the relationship between media and faith.

The Nativity Story

150 pages
6 hours of reading

4.2(6)Add rating

A young girl on the threshold of womanhood finds that her parents have arranged her betrothal. Can you imagine her helplessness? An angel visits her to request the unthinkable: that she be the mother of the Son of God. Can you picture her amazement? Found to be pregnant, she is scorned in her village. Can you sense her hurt and fear? As labor pangs overtake her, she and her husband are refused lodging in an unfamiliar city. Can you feel her pain and exhaustion? Holding her newborn son, she gazes into his adorable face while shepherds gather close. Can you imagine her wonder and joy?