The luminaria at Temple Square that’s shown above actually depicts Mary and Joseph and the baby Jesus — not Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith at the Nativity of the Prophet. (LDS.org)
Last month, I alluded to the alleged approach of the grand Mormon holiday of “Smithmas,” which some particularly dishonest critics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints claim we celebrate to the detriment or in place of Christmas.
It occurs to me, in that connection, that I’m not sure that I so much as heard the name of Joseph Smith mentioned last week during the First Presidency’s annual Christmas devotional.
It must have been an unaccountable oversight. Or else I just wasn’t listening carefully enough to hear the Smithmas carols, the hymns celebrating Joseph Smith, and the scriptural readings about the Prophet’s birth.
You can watch and/or listen to the Christmas devotional here:
https://www.lds.org/broadcasts/archive/christmas-devotional/2016/12?lang=eng
Posted from Salt Lake City, Utah
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