As was the case with several of the more obscure disciples, the early church was often confused about Matthias’ identity, which makes it difficult for us to learn much more about him. Some argued he was the same person as Nathanael or Zaccheus, and they even mixed him up with Matthew. ...
Like many of the disciples, Peter was a fisherman. According to theGospel of Matthewand the Gospel of Mark, when Jesus first met him, Peter was fishing with his brother Andrew. Jesus famously said, “Come, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men,” and Peter and Andrew immediatel...
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Central Park was the miraculous forests that Kate the famous summoner created. She tended to it, even when Pandemonium was filled with nothing but darkness. Now she lived here with the mages who followed her in a small village that they built together. The young girls, Pai and Pipi, were ...
The reason we use the Greek term is because Greek was the language used to write the New Testament of the Bible. Almost everything we know about Peter comes from the New Testament. There are very few objective historical documents about his life. Like the rest of Jesus' apostles, Peter ...
The small surviving group took up the ideas of the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century. In the fourteenth century, John Wyclif started the religious movement of the so-called Lollards, which focused on reading the Bible in the native language, and therefore rejected the veneration of...
Matthew's Gospel. Another way to help you do this is to think of the Saint who embodies the spirit of this Season more than any other: the great St. John the Baptist. If you have an icon of him, venerate it especially now. Make special prayers to him and consider the message of ...
(3) P.Bodmer XIX (second half of 4th century/first half of the 5th century)15 is a parchment codex, written in Sahidic, which contains, in its current form, the second part of the Gospel of Matthew and the beginning of the Epistle to the Romans. The text is written in two columns,...
the captivating power of drama and imagery, Jesus shows us what’s really going on here on Earth, and where human history is heading. Revelation gathers up the key themes that run through the Bible and weaves them into the glorious climax of God’s redemptive plan for us and for this ...
This delicate tight-rope walk between philosophy and the Bible has a very precise goal: to establish computus as the key to the relationship between number and the Divine, in line with the patristic revision of philosophical numerology. Computus, the Magister goes on to explain, is part ofphy...