After Jesus has been hoisted up on the cross and Gibson’s opportunity to depict more physical punishment against his martyr messiah has passed, a crow swoops down from the sky and pecks out the eye of another crucified criminal. In its gratuitousness, this final violent moment perfectly encaps...
Padre Pio, Anna Maria Taigi, Elisabeth Canori Mora, Elena Aiello, Mariam Baouardi (Mary of Jesus Crucified), Rosa-Colomba Asdente, Palma d’Oria, Pere Lamy, Marie Martel, and Marie Julie Jahenny, have prophesied the Three Days of Darkness.However it is not endorsed by the ...
Jesus loved you so much. After His example, I do love you. May your holy image appease my fears! Let me experience nothing but calm and confidence!” Do not fear: it would be an offense to God to show lack of confidence in His protection. As soon as you see the sun rise again ...
As Christ’s Christ, we are the prince given to enter the inner sanctuary as we come into the rest of Jesus Christ. Walking by faith, we are laying down our carnal thoughts and works, and after our six symbolic “working days”, the door to the holy place of Christ is opened. Eze ...
their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. 12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. ...
’But they were urgent, demanding with loud cries that he should be crucified. And their voices prevailed. So Pilate decided that their demand should be granted. He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus over...
After all this is the whole purpose of the Christian story—God revealing himself to mankind through the gift of his son Jesus and then offering him as a sacrifice on the cross so that by His very resurrection we too can have that new life and the new relationship with our Father in ...