Mark 16:8 is a surprising way to end a Gospel, with the women fleeing in fear after seeing the empty tomb and hearing the angel announce that Jesus has risen. Most evidence from ancient manuscripts points to this as the real ending of Mark’s Gospel, not 16:9-20. It’s worth reflect...
So, like the empty tomb to the Resurrection (imagine if Our Lord, instead of Ascending, went back, laid down in the tomb, and died), it is the fact that Mary is both Mother and Virgin that is the sign. Not that she conceived as a Virgin, but that she remained a virgin after ...
and then come and offer your gift. Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison.
But, we rarely think about the shared destiny of two people helping each other. Yes, we’ve heard the stories of people needing organ transplants suddenly meeting someone who happens to be a willing match. But, we don’t go looking for these things to happen to us unless we are the on...
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Moon under empty space, (Tishri 2) between Libra and Virgo. “The correct position is for sunset 8/31(August), which is the beginning of Yom Teruah, a scriptural feast day, also called Rosh Hashanah or the Feast of Trumpet”(s.) “The sun only covers (“clothes”) the constellation...
miracle worker, and the suffering Son of God, who sacrificed himself for our sins. In the original version, there is no mention of Jesus’ appearances post resurrection, and ends with the discovery of the empty tomb, and instructions to spread word of the resurrection to all who would hear...
And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty, and your faith is also empty…And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are...
Following the death of Jesus, it was Peter who first walked into the tomb to verify reports that the tomb was empty. Though he saw that it was indeed empty, he left without telling the rest of the Apostles of what he had seen. Peter also the first of whom, that Jesus appeared before...
In the gospel this Sunday we read about Mary of Magdala, Peter, and the Beloved Disciple finding the empty tomb. When Mary found the empty tomb early in the morning before the sun rose, she ran to tell Peter. Then Peter and the Beloved Disciple ran to see for themselves. This act of...