of the human person from conception until natural death
In an apparent contradiction to what Jesus had said earlier that He had made known to the disciples all that He had heard from the Father (Jn 15:15), at the outset of this weekend’s Gospel Jesus tells them, “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.”
Between the glory of the Resurrection and the fire of Pentecost lies an often-overlooked event in the life of Christ and the Church. Forty days after Easter, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Ascension, where we read of Christ’s bodily ascent into heavenly glory. According to the Catechism of…
According to one biblical scholar, while Jerusalem is the focus of Jewish identity, faith, and hope, in the Book of Revelation, Jerusalem signifies “the election of a new people and the sealing of a new covenant” (Wilfrid J. Harrington, Sacra Pagina: Revelation, p. 209). John the Revelator writes, “Then I…
Seemingly mundane, the conversations Jesus often has with various people, such as the Woman Caught in Adultery and the Samaritan Woman at the Well, frequently involve Jesus asking questions that reveal a deeper truth. Since conversations are more concrete and direct, unlike parables, they show Jesus engaged with real, historical individuals.
In the crypt chapel of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC, there is a series of mosaics depicting the original fifteen mysteries of the Rosary. Underneath each depiction of the mysteries, an event from the Old Testament is paired with the mystery of the rosary as…
C. S. Lewis wrote, “The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares for this, or exhibits this, or results from this” (Miracles). Christ put on our nature so that we can put on his. The first happens at the…
4th Sunday of Advent St. Athanasius articulated the doctrine of the Incarnation most clearly and persuasively in a treatise known as De Incarnatione Verbi Dei or The Incarnation of the…
As the liturgical calendar approaches the final days of the Easter season, the Acts of the Apostles will soon be consigned to only being rarely used, if at all. It…
Nature and dignity 