This Lent, as in years past, the longtime music director at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church, Mary Jones Rhodes, has organized a program called “The Seven Last Words”. She has chosen songs for ...
Editor’s note: For more than 20 years, Father Raymond de Souza has preached the “Seven Last Words” devotion, a traditional meditation on the seven times Jesus speaks from the cross on Good Friday.
You have to draw close to hear the words, for a crucified man struggles to speak, his lungs crushed under the pressure of his own weight, even as his body screams to him in pain. During these hours ...
A recent forensic study has shed new light on the final hours of Jesus Christ, as depicted by the bloodstains on the Shroud of Turin. The study, conducted by Italian researchers, suggests that the ...
Not only does humility place us in a correct relationship with God, but by living humbly, we also follow Jesus’ example.
In this era of heightened partisanship, the homilist at the Sunday Eucharist is more easily vulnerable to accusations of taking sides, even if preaching basic Christian values. This is inevitable at ...
How do we know this? Well, because somebody found some of that 1,300-year-old bread.
We can learn that you shouldn’t rush Jesus, but put your faith in him,” says Taylor, 11. Also, we can learn that sometimes a good deed goes unnoticed, and that’s OK.” ...
(RNS) — As video footage of the fatal police shooting of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman who lived in Springfield, Illinois, circulates online, many viewers are memorializing her near-final ...