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The Sacrament of Penance is one of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church, in which the faithful are absolved from sins committed after baptism and reconciled with the Christian community. During reconciliation mortal sins must be confessed and venial sins may be confessed for devotional reasons.

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The Rosary is a meditative prayer based on Scripture. When we pray the Rosary, we ask Mary to pray for us as we seek to grow closer to her son Jesus by contemplating His life, death, and Resurrection.

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The blessed sacrament is presented in a monstrance and carried through the streets to the church.

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It shows a scene of when Jesus was born and the people and animals around him in the stable.

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A crown and flowers are given to a statue of the Blessed Mother Mary.

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The family lights four candles week by week reminding us that we are waiting for Christ.

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It is prayer and meditation of each of the 14 stations of Jesus's Passion and death.

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A detailed confession to a bishop or priest, however, appeared early in the church's history. In the 5th-century discipline of the Roman church, the practice was to hear confessions at the beginning of Lent and to reconcile the penitents on Holy Thursday in preparation for Easter.

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According to Catholic tradition, the rosary was instituted by the Blessed Virgin Mary herself. In the 13th century, she is said to have appeared to St. Dominic, given him a rosary, and asked that Christians pray the Hail Mary, Our Father and Glory Be prayers instead of the Psalms.

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In 1264 he ordered the whole church to observe the feast. Urban's order was confirmed by Pope Clement V at the Council of Vienne in 1311–12. By the mid-14th century the festival was generally accepted, and in the 15th century it became, in effect, one of the principal feasts of the church.

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By the end of the 19th century nativity scenes became widely popular in many Christian denominations, and many versions in various sizes and made of various materials, such as terracotta, paper, wood, wax, and ivory, were marketed, often with a backdrop setting of a stable.

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In the West, the pious practice of publicly crowning an image of the Blessed Mother gained popularity in the 19th century.

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On Sundays, a large white candle was lit. The custom gained ground among Protestant churches in Germany and evolved into the smaller wreath with four or five candles known today. Roman Catholics in Germany began to adopt the custom in the 1920s, and in the 1930s it spread to North America.

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In the 16th century, devotional books appeared especially in the Low Countries, which had 14 stations with prayers for each one. At the end of the 17th century, the erection of stations in churches became more popular.