A Feast of Divine Beauty
In several days, we will celebrate the Great Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, a Feast of light and glory celebrated every year on August 6. The account…
Reflections in Christ
Learning Lessons from the Loaves
The miracle of the multiplication of the loaves bears a significance and symbolism like few others of Christ’s miracles, which is perhaps why it…
Embracing the Tradition
On August 1, we will commemorate the Seven Holy Maccabee Children, Solomone their mother, and Eleazar their teacher, all of whom were…
July 14, 2015
Acts 28:23-31 Paul’s witness: some were convinced, others disbelieved
23 When they had appointed a day for him, they came to him…
Capernaum
Welcome to today’s edition of Bible Trivia. From the episode recorded in Matthew 9 pertaining to the healing of a paralytic brought by…
July 9, 2015
Acts 28:17-22 “Spoken Against”
17 After three days he called together the local leaders of the Jews; and…
The Mathematics of Misery
One of the many memorable lines from the classic The Princess Bride says it admirably. In that film, the then-mysterious Man in Black says to…
July 7, 2015
Acts 28:11-16 “And so we came to Rome”
11 After three months we set sail in a ship which had wintered in…
“Do you want to be healed?”
In the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Saint John we find the account of the healing of the paralytic by…
June 30, 2015
Acts 28:1-10 Uncommon Kindness
1 After we had escaped, we then learned that the island was…