Readings: • Isa. 42:1-4, 6-7 • Psa. 29:1-2, 3-4, 3, 9-10 • Acts 10:34-38 • Matt. 3:13-17 Growing up in a small Fundamentalist Bible chapel, I didn’t hear much about what baptism could or should […]
Readings: • Jer 38:4-6, 8-10 • Ps 40:2, 3, 4, 18 • Heb 12:1-4 • Lk 12:49-53 In the summer of 2007, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith released a document containing “responses […]
On the Readings for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, August 15, 2018 […]
Readings: • Acts 2:1-11 • Ps 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34 • 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13 or Rom 8:8-17 • Jn 20:19-23 or Jn 14:15-16, 23b-26 He is silent, yet sounds like rushing wind; he […]
Editor’s note: The following homily was preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., on the Solemnity of the Ascension (May 30, 2019) at the Church of the Holy Innocents, New York City. […]
Readings: Acts 15:1-2, 22-29 Psa. 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8 Rev. 21:10-14, 22-23 Jn. 14:23-29 What is the largest body of charismatic Christians in the world? And when did the charismatic, or Pentecostal, movement begin? With […]
“When he was conceived and born these saving acts were still in the future,” says the noted theologian and author of a new study of […]
On the Readings for Sunday, June 24, 2012, The Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist […]
On the Readings for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity […]
Mary prays in the heart of the Apostolic Church on Pentecost, “The Birthday of the Church” (Acts 1:12-14).
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