1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (185+ words) The list was evident if never specific. We did not cross ourselves at the invocation or upon receiving communion. Our pastors did not wear funny suits, they did not dress in clericals, make hand signs over the communion elements, bow,…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (1846+ words) By Dr. John Bergsma (intro, first and second readings) and Dr. Brant Pitre (Gospel Reading) This Sunday's readings might seem bipolar or schizophrenic. We begin Mass with exultant cheering as we relive Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem. We end the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week 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+ mon, 2+ week 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,…...

3+ mon, 1+ week 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…...

3+ mon, 2+ 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…...

3+ 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…...

4+ 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…...

4+ 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…...

4+ 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…...