All the Gospels agree: despite Pilate’s attempts at evasion, after Jesus is scourged and crowned with thorns, the mob is ...
St. Andrew, whose feast day is Nov. 30, was one of the two initial disciples of John the Baptist who encountered Jesus at the ...
The 30th November is St Andrew's day. Who was St Andrew and why is he patron saint of Scotland? This is the story ...
On November 30, the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates the Feast Day of the Holy Apostle Andreas, one of the 12 Apostles, and ...
But their hopes of expelling the pagan Roman Empire and establishing a new Jewish kingdom of Israel died on the cross with Jesus. It took several decades for their beliefs to be written down.
As immigration remains a hotly contested priority for the Trump administration after playing a decisive role in the deeply ...
With the healing of a dying woman who touched one of the crosses ... The basil is used and offered, as it was the fragrant flower growing where the Cross was found. The Incarnate God: The Feasts of ...
Meditation on Christ’s suffering gave medieval women a sense that their despised bodies could mirror his, says Hetta Howes ...
Jesus’ death was part of God’s plan to make way for eternal life. When Jesus was on the cross, he said, “Father forgive them; they don’t know what they are doing.” They were participants who had no ...
Poverty is clearly anything but a marginal experience—and yet, as in the last election, it’s repeatedly minimalized and ...
Certainly, the Bible assigns a special, initial culpability to Israel's leaders for the death of Christ ... utter spiritual bankruptcy -- that it was your sin that drove Jesus to the cross. You must ...
On Christmas Day, Jesus became weak in human form so that we might find life through him and his ultimate power. Gabrielle ...