pious Joachim and Anna. The Holy Church established this feast during the first centuries of the Christian Faith. The event that we celebrate—the birth of the God-Chosen maiden—brought joy to all the world, for the God-man, Jesus Christ...
John the Baptist was a righteous and holy man[pause]and it cost him his life. Truly humble in character, he felt unworthy to stoop down and untie the thong of the sandals of the Lord Jesus. [Mt. 3:11; Mk. 1:7] Once Jesus had appeared on the scene, the joy of John had been f...
My brothers and sisters in Jesus, during today's readings, we heard the Holy Spirit calling out to us to walk in the newness of life. In the Name of the Holy Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, we have received the Church Sacrament of Baptism. Through faith in Jesus ...
building – crescendo-ing, as it were – until we reach the gospel of the final liturgy and we are told without any doubt who this Jesus – this Babe of Bethlehem – really is.
the world two great messages: that of the merciful Jesus and that of Fatima. The first was remembered during the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy; the second, related to the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary over evil, “of which the centenary of the...
Abba Paphnoutios, a great desert father, was going along one day on his way and there he saw two men committing some sin. The thought of his passion said: “Look what great evil they are doing!” The eye saw them and immediately the thought flared up, trying thereby to attack the ...
In other words, in Jesus dwells the Father and the Holy Spirit. And the same can be said about the Father and the Holy Spirit. In each one dwells the other two Persons of God. This truth is supported by a verse in The Letter of Paul to the Colossians. "In Him (Jesus) all the ...
By the grace of God, through the power of the Holy Spirit, our faith in Jesus Christ and the Sacrament of Baptism, we received a new heart and spirit that were free of all the past sins that we had committed, including all the traces of the original sin. And to help our new heart...