of the human person from conception until natural death
In the earliest days of the Church, Epiphany incorporated many of the elements of the life of Jesus that were subsequently divided into various liturgical feasts. With that in mind, the baptism of Jesus and the wedding feast at Cana were originally incorporated into Epiphany. This historical insight is better…
The celebration of Epiphany emerged around AD 361 initially as a commemoration of the birth of Christ and, later on, in order to recall the three miracles that manifested the divinity of Christ: the Lord’s Baptism, the visit of the Magi, and the miraculous transformation of water into wine at Cana.
In volume four of The Church at Prayer, Fr. Pierre Jounel described Ordinary Time this way, “The thirty-four Sundays per annum or of Ordinary Time represent the ideal Christian Sunday,…
The dozen days that mark the period between the Savior’s birth and the coming of the Magi constitute a period of religious feast days celebrated among the Catholics in medieval…
The biblical meaning of the word oracle (Lat. oraculum) is primarily found in its plural form or as oracles. The term refers both to divine responses to a question asked…
Among the moveable feasts during the Christmas season, where Epiphany is observed on its traditional date of January 6, it occurs on that date no matter what weekday that it…
Nature and dignity 