While Matthew marches through names of the men in this list of Christ’s ancestors, each name of a woman yells, “Grace!” Some earned the shame they endured, while some did not. But either way, they remind us of the first woman in Scripture, shamed by sin. The First Mother Eve list...
While Jesus was hanging on the cross, "there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son. After tha...
He wore the Crown of Thorns and I saw His bloody, dirty face and all His agony mingled with love, sorrow and mercy. I couldn't go to sleep for I continued to see Jesus. When I awoke in the morning I knew it was all over. Soon John would take our mother Mary home with him. ...
If the two are the same person, then John was the only apostle mentioned as being present at the Crucifixion of Jesus (John 19:26–27), and a dying Jesus entrusted the care of his mother, Mary, to John. Similarly, “the one whom Jesus loved” and Peter were the first apostles to ...
“And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. Matthew 12:...
The alternative suggestion which identifies “his mother’s sister” with “Mary the wife of Clopas” involves the most unlikely requirement that two sisters bore the same name. 2. The betrothal. Mary was brought up in Nazareth, and prob. was still in her teens when she was betrothed. In...
the title were blurring the distinction between the divine and the human in Christ,Nestorius, thepatriarchof Constantinople, objected to its use, preferring the less explicit titleChristotokos, meaning “Christ-bearer” or “mother of Christ.” Along with other aspects of his teaching, Nestorius’...
and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened th...
-Scripture taken from the Ignatius Bible. Synopsis of scripture provided by Spiritual Advisor. Friday, June 26, 2015 Mary, Refuge of Holy Love says: “Praise be to Jesus.” “My Son is deeply saddened and His Mournful Heart most grievously wounded by today’s Supreme Court deci...
and this himself being interposed between God and life, it vanished even as a beam by the intervening of any gross body between it and the sun. Now man's light and life being thus eclipsed and cut off, the Lord is pleased to let all fulness dwell in his Son Jesus Christ, and the ...