This Most Tremendous Tale
Our meditation for Christmas is the simple question of who and what we celebrate on Christmas Day, why it brings true and lasting joy, and why it changes everything.
Our meditation for Christmas is the simple question of who and what we celebrate on Christmas Day, why it brings true and lasting joy, and why it changes everything.
The Slovak Bishop’s Conference said the church should not be “a place for appeals that divide believers.”
“We really can’t imagine the world without the drama of Jesus and Pilate,” the author said, exploring the ripple effects of history’s most influential trial.
The transformative and hope-filled message of Good Friday is that our hate can be “turned to pity, and our pity to love.”
Let us seek to banish Hermes and his associates back towards the margins where they rightly belong before the maenads one day end up coming for us all.
Jesus Christ died unlike he had lived: politically. D. L. Dusenbury urges us to reassess the gospels.
The modern mind, which reduces everything to a means—a mere apparatus of use—subordinates even God to such a perverse conception of reality.
A new analysis by Italian scientists of the Shroud of Turin using X-ray technology proves that the famous cloth dates back 2,000 years, contrary to the medieval origin suggested by the disputed 1988 carbon-14 analysis.
The attendance of a performance of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion during Holy Week has long been a staple of the educated bourgeoisie. But what once used to be a reverent experience, is in danger of becoming increasingly demystified. A plea for awe.
That is what the world is desperately yearning for, which is why people still flock to their churches to kneel down and kiss the Cross on Good Friday. Most may not fully understand why they are there, but they know that Christ did not give his life so that we would remain the same. He gave his life so that, having crucified the old self, the burden of bondage would be lifted forever.
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