During the Last Supper, on the eve of his crucifixion, the Bible says Jesus Christ told his disciples, “One of you will betray me.” Attendees of a special Maundy Thursday service on April 2 at ...
Becoming an everyday disciple of Jesus Christ begins with simple, daily decisions, taught Brother Sean R. Dixon, second ...
Luke 14:26 (RSV) If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. The same ...
Photo by Daan Stevens on Unsplash. In today’s Gospel, Jesus offers a prayer just before he is arrested. While the Synoptic Gospels record the agony in the garden, when Jesus’ followers fall asleep as ...
According to the Gospels, Jesus foresaw his own death. In the Gospel of Matthew, for example, he shares with his disciples that “he must go to Jerusalem and suffer… and be killed and on the third day ...
When God sent Moses to the children of Israel in the book of Exodus, He gave him miraculous signs to perform so that the people would believe that God truly sent him. In the same way, when Elijah the ...
Last Friday we continued our look into the command Christ gave to His church, as recorded in Matthew 28:18-20, the command that has come to be known as “the Great Commission.” We discovered that a ...
Jesus tells his disciples in John 14:23-29 that he'll be leaving them soon, but he will not leave them alone, not leave them to their own devices. Jesus promises to send them an advocate, the Holy ...
All of us are familiar with Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic painting of The Last Supper. Unlike frescos painted onto wet plaster, ...
As you've noticed, I'm sure, we are going back to the regular cycle of readings after we have gone through the season of Lent and Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, and those three feasts: Trinity, Corpus ...
"Here is a group of men who witnessed something otherworldly and magical, but still they are being asked to leave everything for their faith. Even to give up their lives for it … there is still the ...
The disciples' carrying the sorrows of the world was a type of penitential rite — begging to see God's mercy in the midst of ...