Last Friday we started looking into the biblical way to respond to the truth that Jesus is God’s Son. Paul clarified that in Acts 20:20-21: “I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was ...

Repentance and forgiveness are something this world — and I would argue, our communities — need much more of. What do I need to Repent for? Why do I need to Forgive others? What is Repentance, anyhow?

We commemorate the solemnities of All Saints and All Souls this week. The liturgical calendar reminds us to reflect intentionally on those who have died and to see ourselves in communion with them, ...

"The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the Gospel." With these two compelling sentences -- as recorded in the Gospel of Mark-- Jesus inaugurates his ministry and sums up what his ...

VATICAN CITY — Jesus invites everyone to repent and to turn swords into plowshares and missiles into factories and homes, the papal preacher said. "This year we celebrate Easter not to the joyful ...

Ash Wednesday falls on March 5 this year, the year of 2025 A.D. Ash Wednesday begins a season of repentance, a season which also prepares God’s people to celebrate the joy of Easter. Ash Wednesday is ...

The Jesus Prayer is a brief but profound appeal to God, expressing repentance and a request for mercy. In the Orthodox tradition, this prayer is considered one of the most powerful, helping to cleanse ...

The receiving of ashes on Ash Wednesday is a fairly private, yet often very public display of one’s Christian faith as people depart worship with a smudge of ashes forming a cross on their foreheads, ...