of the human person from conception until natural death
The accounts of the events accompanying the Baptist’s birth, coupled with the declarations that Jesus made about John both testify to why the early Church held the Precursor in such high esteem. The Lord declared John to be “more than a prophet” (Lk 7:26) and “among those born of women,…
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…
The Feast of the Virgin’s Nativity, like the Assumption or the Dormition of Mary, originated in Jerusalem. It began in the fifth century as the Feast of the Basilica Sanctae…
Nature and dignity 