What I have progressively discovered through this struggle is that I let the wrong things and people (and wrong doesn’t mean bad) define my identity, who I was at my core. As I increasingly focused on my Identity in Christ, however, I found a firm foundation, one that doesn’t change...
ChristVirgin MaryFemale mysticsThe sermon that Juana de la Cruz (14811534) devoted to St Bartholomew offers an insight into her deep-seated and longstanding attachment to the saint as well as the transcendence of traditional boundaries and categories. Flaying, appraised as a metaphor capable of ...
The early Christians claimed that Christ was the fulfillment of the Hebrew Scriptures and preached a Gospel of love and forgiveness epitomized in the Sermon on the Mount. The inspirational example of the early Christian martyrs helped Christianity spread throughout the Hellenized Roman Empire. In ...
“the story of North America and of theUnited Statesis part of that larger, more importanthistory, not vice versa.” Bender emphasizes the idea of how the discovery of the ocean was the starting point of providing America with a basis of identity. Thus, in relation to his claims, I ...
Here we present Bertrand Comparet’s sermon,The Great Masquerade, in which he tears the mask off Jewry and exposes them for who they truly are —and are not— and by doing so, he also reveals the deception behind identifying the Anglo-Saxon and kindred peoples of European descent as so-...
by God’s word, is the body of Christ. The cup, or rather its contents, sanctified by God’s word, is the blood of Christ.” From Sermon 227, in Daniel J. Sheerin, The Eucharist, Message of the Fathers of the Church, ed. Thomas Halton, No. 7 (Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier...
Eric also attended one night a year later, during a Tabernacles celebration. He came in late. My eldest son was just a baby then and I was busy with him, so I only could speak briefly with Eric after the sermon. I don’t know what will happen to Eric Rudolph. Perhaps he will get...
SERMON (Literary form)JESUS ChristIn this paper I present, through the eyes of Saint Gregory of Nyssa and Saint Chrysostom, a brief analysis of human resilience in the Beatitudes of Jesus Christ. I aim to explore how they equip the faithful to stand firm under both int...
But he was probably aware of a Gentile audience, as his gospel makes the case that the saving truth of Christ is for all nations.The SettingThis passage is a part of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, and comes at the end of what has traditionally been called “the beatitudes,” the series...