Check to see if the animal is choking on a foreign object. If an animal is not breathing, place it on a firm surface with its left side up. Check for a heartbeat. If you hear a heartbeat but not breathing, close the animal’s mouth and breathe directly into its nose—not the mout...
The question of why the earliest Christians believed Jesus to be divine is important, not only as a matter of historical interest, but also because the divinity of Jesus is often rejected today on the grounds that it was not an essential part of earliest Christian faith but a latter addition...
Preaching Christ and Him Crucified: A Spiritual Study on the Interior Experience of Saint Paul on the Road to Damascus and of Saint Eugene on Good Friday On the road to Damascus, St. Paul had a profound experience of Risen Christ as the Son of God.He accepted Jesus as the Son of God....
12. and Jesus delivered up to be crucified.16. He is crowned with thorns, spit on, and mocked;21. faints in bearing his cross;27. hangs between two thieves;29. suffers the triumphing reproaches of the crowd;39. but is confessed by the centurion to be the Son of God;42. and is ...
26“But anyone who hears these words of mine and does not obey them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27The rain poured down, the rivers overflowed, the wind blew hard against that house, and it fell. And what a terrible fall that was!” The Authority of Jesus 28...
The idea above is that direct body imprinting off the crucified Jesus generated the Shroud image we see today. Who’s to say that Sam might have also considered the notion, no matter how briefly, that the Shroud image was a SIMULATED sweat imprint, obtained with artificial pseudo-sweat (...
Always I find again that this crucified and risen Lord is the only thing that makes sense of what I see. Always I find again that Jesus is “My Lord and My God.” In my best moments, I do not press myself to parse the mysteries of the universe or its Creator. In my best ...
He never stopped even from the cross, when he prayed for intercession for those that crucified him: “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing” (Luke 23:34). Our model is Jesus Christ himself. Our duty on this path of discipleship is to be willing to be self...
There was not even a single example of any religious meeting having been held on the hours called Sunday! On the other hand, I had to learn, like it or not, that Jesus kept the Sabbath day "as His custom was," and the Apostle Paul kept it "as his manner was." Also Paul spent...
Let us abandon the old disputes and, each in his own domain, let us work to make our brothers good, by giving them good example. Later on, though traveling along different paths, we shall achieve union among the churches to form together the true and unique Church of our Lord Jesus ...