Different passages of the Bible contain what many scholars believe to be either hymn texts or texts otherwise used during worship services. An example is Ephesians 5:14, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise ...
COMMENTARY: Wrestling with the mystery of death and the suffering of innocents can draw us deeper into the meaning of Christ’s own passion.
Christ’s death and resurrection give me a heavenly perspective on suffering and mortality. “He too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of ...
“Faced with our fragile humanity,” Pope Leo XIV continued, Christ’s Resurrection “becomes care and healing, nourishing hope ...
During his general audience on Nov. 5, Pope Benedict XVI spoke about the central role of Christ’s resurrection in St. Paul’s teaching. St. Paul proclaims the vital significance of the Resurrection: In ...
Some modern Americans claim to not fear death. On November 15 last year, boxer Mike Tyson told a 14-year-old girl interviewing him that he has no fear of what happens after he dies. When he was asked ...
Each Easter, the church quite explicitly claims that the cosmos itself has been transformed by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. She does this implicitly, every other day of the year, by her very act ...
Pope Leo XIV reflected on the world’s need for fraternity — a gift from Christ that frees us from selfishness and division — ...
This meditation from the Tao Te Ching, like many others from Eastern religious traditions, invites spiritual seekers into profound reflection about life as paradox. Lao Tsu challenges prayerful people ...
UPDATE: Lionsgate is officially calling The Resurrection of the Christ a follow-up film and not a sequel. The text has been adjusted to align with the statement. After years of “it’s happening, maybe, ...