There were additional feasts ... available in Jesus’ time did not make the trip easy or quick. Unlike Caesar’s census, where individual families had to disperse around Israel to their ...

Candlemas closes the Christmas season. Bede pulled together threads from a network connecting Jesus’s birth and the redemptive sacrifice on the Cross making the new covenant adumbrated by the ...

Knowing God personally is very important, because we become unified with Him. The more we know Him, the stronger that unity ...

The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on the Thursday before Easter Sunday. This year, Ash Wednesday and the ...

Our circumstances are similar, in many ways, to those that fed Israel ... feasts that daily broadcast this truth: the status quo of hunger and injustice is not the end of the story. Jesus ...

Fr. Luciano Felloni, an Argentinian priest assigned to the Philippines since 2000, sat in a television interview. He spoke ...

The blood was to be a sign of deliverance of the first born sons of Israel ... During the feast of Passover, the year before the Eucharist was instituted at the Last Supper, Jesus says ...

Discover the significance of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, a powerful moment in the life of the Holy Family. Explore the connection to the Pidyon ha-Ben and the light of Christ.

"8 "It is only natural that the Church rejoice as one contemplates the modest home of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. We read in the hymn from Matins on the feast of ... of many in Israel-and to be ...

The liturgy received the rank of feast. The date ... and inaugurating the new times of grace and salvation in Jesus Christ. Mary, the Daughter of Zion and ideal personification of Israel, is the last ...

Matthew means “gift of God,” and Levi is the name of the priestly tribe of Israel ... in on achieving it. The feast Matthew hosted shows his open association with Jesus.