1+ week, 3+ day ago  (705+ words) Is the Rapture real? There's always debate around this topic. Some say, "Oh, the Rapture is just a modern invention, some 19th-century gimmick." Nonsense. Yes, J.N. Darby helped popularize it in more recent times, but long before him, the early Church…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (611+ words) Peter approached Jesus and asked him, "Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?" Jesus answered, "I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times." Matthew 18:2122 Things changed quickly,…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (288+ words) "In [Christ] also we have obtained an inheritance" (Eph. 1:10-11). As a member of God's family, you have obtained a future inheritance that has many present benefits. An inheritance is something received by an heir as a result of a will…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (978+ words) By Dr. John Bergsma This Sunday we celebrate the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, which will close the liturgical season of Christmas. But why do we celebrate this event at all? The primary meaning of baptism appears to…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (231+ words) Have you understood all these things?" They said to Him, Yes." And Jesus said to them, Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like a head of a household, who brings out of…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (408+ words) But blessed are your eyes, because they see; and your ears, because they hear. For truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (817+ words) Msgr. Charles Pope " Community in Mission And further, if you are prepared to accept it, YOU are also called to be a prophet who prepares others for the coming of Christ as judge. You do not work independent of the…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (458+ words) Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says, You will keep…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (443+ words) High-profile conversions from figures like Shia LeBeouf, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Russell Brand followed by findings--church attendance picking up has led to stunned reaction from the commentariat press. In Britain, for example, Pentecostalism and Catholicism have been found to…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (217+ words) Jesus Christ is King of Thieves, though He never stole. He is savior of sinners, though He never sinned. Today's Gospel chosen presents Jesus as reigning from the cross. Nothing could be more paradoxical. Let's look at it from four…...