Based on History, all of Jesus scholars agreed that Jesus was a Galilean first-century Jew. He was born of a Jewish mother, and was addressed by his followers as “Rabbi,” and he taught in the Temple in ancient Jerusalem. The…
This is a prayer that many Christians around the world pray every day of Lent. For some Christians, the liturgical season of Lent is practiced throughout with the ancient prayer of St. Ephrem the Syrian. Ephrem was an innocent and…
The color has a great deal of symbolism. During the sorrowful season of Lent, it has become a habitual practice for priests of the Roman Rite to wear vestments of the color violet. This is a tradition that was adopted…
In the Gospel of Matthew, “Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper” (Matthew 26:6). It is believed by some people that Simon invited Jesus to his house out of gratitude because Jesus cured him of his…
These holy men and women were changed forever by what they saw on the Good Friday. As those present at the Crucifixion of Jesus were part of the crowd who put him to death, there were also several men and…
Infant baptism has been put into practice by the Catholic Church right from the very beginning. As we follow the commission of Jesus Christ, the Catholic Church has from the very beginning incorporated the sacrament of Baptism into her primary…
The Mission of Rosary gives us a way forward that we can trust and depend on because it is based on Catholic history and scripture. In this mission, we ask everyone to consecrate themselves and turn in their families to…
Loving your enemy constitutes the nucleus of the Christian revolution. If we reflect on this theme, a revolution is not based on strategies of economic, political or media power. The revolution of love is a love that does not rely…
Pope Benedict XVI, gave his thoughts on what is the key to a fruitful Lent, during his final message for Lent in 2013. Where he encourages us to increase both our faith and works of charity during Lent. He went…
This is a brief explanation of this popular Catholic Lenten practice. As we all know, Lent is a time to give up something for the 40 days. What we should give up could be a type of food, such as…
St. Francis is well known for his love of the poor and most vulnerable of society, he also had a deep love of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist. In one of his Letter to the Friars, St. Francis gave the…
Lent is a period that many of us get back to our faith. In that case, Lent is also the time when lots of new people queue up to join the Catholic faith and lots of lukewarm Catholics remind themselves…
Let us consider the only one who benefits from your excuses about prayer. And that person is Satan. In life, you can stay 30 days without food, three days without water, three hours without shelter, and about three minutes without…
According to (Genesis 4:16), after Cain murdered his brother Abel, he went away from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, east of Eden. (Genesis 4:17) states that Cain got to know his wife, and…
Who was she? How many children did she have? In the beginning pages of the Bible, the person that wrote the book of Genesis presents the creation of the first humans. Adam is first created from the “dust of the…
As Christianity continued to develop, new perceptions were drawn from how St. Paul understand Christ as the New Adam who completes and perfects creation (1 Cor. 15). Some early teachers in the other hand, understood Mary as less than perfect,…
Anointing was understood as an experience of God’s grace in the Hebrew scriptures. In this case, the psalmists write, “You anoint me in the presence of my enemies” (Ps. 23:5) and “God has anointed you with the oil of gladness”…
The use of incense dates back to biblical times. It was a major part of the religious of the Israelites practice in the Temple. The book of Revelation states about how angels used incense to offer prayers to God (Rev….
Among the paradoxes of our Catholic faith, the one that is the foundational element is the belief in the Trinity, which is the flour to the bread of Catholicism, cannot be understood through human reason. The mysterious nature of the…
Has the Lenten season always been 40 days long? Were the apostles actually the ones responsible for establishing it? Lent, as it’s known today took many centuries to develop. In the first few centuries of the Church, Christians were frequently persecuted…
Aramaic was the first language of Christian liturgy. And it was the common language of the first Christians, who were Palestinian Jews. As Hebrew was the language of scripture and formal worship, and Christian worship occurred in the home where…
There is an old tradition in centuries about distributing blessed candles on the feast of the Presentation of the Lord. Imagine if you have received a candle from any celebrations of the Church, what would you do with it? First…
In accord with the ancient tradition, the Blessed Virgin Mary paid a visit to the sites of Jesus’ suffering, death and resurrection on a daily basis after his ascension into Heaven. Many other traditions also claimed that Mary followed Jesus…
It is a natural thing to be afraid of death. It’s only few people that are able to embrace it and even fewer will remain in a place where their life is being threatened. Same were the thoughts of St….
Sts. Louis and Zelie Martin, are the first married couple to be canonized together, and they were not initially drawn to married life. In fact, marriage was the least idea from their minds. Both were drawn to the religious life…
There’s one role model every young Catholic young should be introduced to and he is Pier Giorgio Frassati. Pier Giorgio was a attractive, active youth from Italy who lived in the early 1900s and he came from a successful family….
Marriage in the ancient world was so different from what it is today. Couples never got the privilege to choose their future spouse, and Jewish culture was no exception. In the tradition of Jews, a matchmaker helped to suggest a…
When Jesus founded his Church on earth, he placed it to the care of the apostles, who became the first bishops or shepherds of the Christian faithful. And they passed on that special task to others through the laying on…
So why is it that the Church instructs Catholics to abstain from meat on Fridays (as well as Ash Wednesday and Good Friday), but gives a license for Catholics to eat fish? Sounds fishy to me! But why Friday?” Catholic…
Lent is a battlefield, where we follow Jesus into the desert to carry out a spiritual war against the temptations of the devil. It’s not easy and opens us up to spiritual attacks that try to take us away from…
