But how and why would that torturous event and extreme sorrow associated with the death of the messiah affect eternity in a positive way? Why should Easter be a joyful time? The answer is neither ...

Every year, we celebrate a dying and rising God who fulfills the hopes of ages past. If you’ve ever attended a liturgical church during Holy Week, you’ve likely recited the Apostles’ Creed—a ...

A stained-glass window depicts Jesus as Christ the King. The Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, commonly ...

"When Christ came into the world, he said: 'Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; in holocausts and sin offerings you took no delight. Then I said, "As is written ...

"And going into the house they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh" ...

A young man once told me that he had seen the face of Jesus in the trunk of a chestnut tree, the bark moving as if it were flesh. An older woman told me that Christ had appeared to her in the ...

Growing up, I recall with great affection the fact that during Holy Week, NBC would air the 1977 television miniseries, Jesus of Nazareth. Directed by Franco Zeffirelli, this large-scale production ...

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What happened on Christmas night more than 2,000 years ago fundamentally and irrevocably changed the path of humanity. “When peaceful stillness lay all over and the night was half spent, your Almighty ...