In our church on a typical Sunday, we read lessons from the Hebrew Bible (called the Old Testament in most churches), the New Testament, and one of the Gospels. I ...
Is that all the Church ever talks about ... we will explore the Old Testament prefiguration of this sacrament. In the next column, we will explore Christ’s teaching in the New Testament.
In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist. There are a ...
Reading in worship is a privilege, and the office of Reader has been important in the Church since early times; it requires faith ... This resembles the Christian practice of ordering lections ...
In today’s responsorial psalm, I saw these thoughts reflected: “Do not forget the works of the Lord! What we have heard and know, and what our fathers have declared to us, we will declare to the ...
This lines up with how the Bible presents anointing in the Old Testament, where kings and priests would often be anointed for a ... At the same time, in the charismatic church, there has been an abuse ...