Here are some ideas to nurture your faith in 2025. Read: Many faithful spiritual teachers can help with this: Ronald ...

The first is called the liturgy of the Word and the second the Eucharistic liturgy. In the first part a passage from the ...

Jesus understood family blessings and struggles on a personal level, and He learned from being part of a family. His early ...

David Rives, a Christian author and columnist, reflects on Matthew 3:17, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." ...

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, ...

"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17). This verse is from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels in the New Testament of the Bible, and is about the ...

Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some biblical sources, was born in this town some two millennia ago.

Carved into the rock near Temple Mount, the structure comprises eight rooms, containing an altar, a sacred standing stone, ...

Jesus and the Jubilee, written by biblical scholar John Bergsma, is a well-timed book coinciding with the start of the 2025 Jubilee on the theme of hope. The new Jubilee is a yearlong season of ...

Having watched for Jesus in Advent; having celebrated his coming in the flesh at Christmas; having praised his universal ...