Reflect on Sacred Scripture (the Bible) within the context of the Church's tradition and teaching, aiming to deepen understanding of God's word and its relevance to faith and life.
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What did Jesus look like after the Resurrection? Why was He hard to recognize? Was he physical or spiritual in appearance? Once we start reading about Jesus' resurrection after Easter I always wonder why Peter, Mary Magdalane, and other disciplies did not recognize Him. Father James Martin, author of
There are Bible passages that we read often and we may become used to them. This could be the case with the passages associated with the passion and crucifixion of Christ, as at a minimum, we read them once a year and there are countless movies and paintings about them.
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The transfiguration is one of my favorite scenes of the Gospels. In fact, I meditate on it and on Jesus’ manifested glory every week as a means to help me become closer to God and increase the virtue of Hope. As soon as Jesus asked Peter, John, and James to
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By their nature it is difficult to know exactly what Jesus meant through His parables. He used their local scenery, culture, and every day acts to explain deep theological concepts in ways that uneducated people of His time could understand. This makes it somewhat difficult for us in the 21st
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From Mark 1:40-45 40 A leper came to him begging him, and kneeling he said to him, “If you choose, you can make me clean.” 41 Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, “I do choose. Be made clean!” 42 Immediately
It seems that we humans were created with a hunger and thirst for something greater than ourselves. We anxiously crave more. Some people call it a “God hole’ that can only be fulfilled by God. Even Bertrand Russell, a British philosopher, logician, and atheist said: “The center of me is
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Since the presentation of Jesus in the temple is the 4th Joyful Mystery of the Rosary, it is an event with which I’m very familiar and hence, I never thought much about what was behind the scripture verses. Whenever I meditate on this mystery during the Rosary I imagine
There are many things I need to improve in my journey to holiness, but one for sure is my ability to surrender my worries and concerns to God with faith and full confidence. This morning I woke up worrying about a situation of a friend. I wonder how the person