Our Lord has been diligent in offering signs, notable in recent memory by riding into Jerusalem on the back of “a colt, the foal of an ass”. Those of a mind to recognize the Messiah have a clear indication that a new covenant, one offering the liberation of […]
Holy Week
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Two Gospels give us the name of Lazarus: John, and Luke. It is mainly the account given in John that we commemorate on Lazarus Saturday; that is the account that narrates the natural death of the brother of Mary and Martha of Bethany, Lazarus, friend to Jesus. John continues […]
Reading from Isaiah Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the […]
Boy, do we feel silly? We had Emmanuel, God-with-us, here with us in the flesh, raising the dead and healing the crippled and insane, walking on water, commanding storms to cold chill (relax), turning water into wine, and feeding thousands of fans and supporters on less than a picnic […]
Great and Holy Saturday in the Byzantine Rite: Intellectual elites, so-called, in what we are presently calling the early modern era, flaunted their boldness by proclaiming things like “God is dead”. Personally, I am skeptical that there was any high-minded philosophy behind this provocateuring; it is true, though, that […]