Journey to Wholeness
While Jesus was speaking to the crowds, his mother and his brothers appeared outside, wishing to speak with him.… Read the rest
Each year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, and when he was twelve years old, they went up according to festival custom.… Read the rest
Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.… Read the rest
I also saw the holy city, a new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
The sealed and empty tomb proclaims: Christ rose intact, preserving seals as from the Virgin’s womb.
Now after the sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the sepulchre. … Read the rest
In Mary’s troubled wonder, a virgin’s humble “yes” welcomed the eternal Son into our world.
In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary. … Read the rest
… Read the restDo you wish to know why Joseph is called just?
Because he possessed perfectly all the virtues.
Mary presented Christ the Firstborn in the temple, offering humanity’s renewal to God.
… Read the restWhen the days were completed for their purification according to the law of Moses, they took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, just as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord,” and to offer the sacrifice of “a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons,” in accordance with the dictate in the law of the Lord.
Discover the beatitudes of Christ: Jesus’ upside-down blueprint for true blessedness and sanctity.
… Read the restWhen Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him.
Kinship with Christ transcends blood: whoever does God’s will becomes his mother, brother, sister.
… Read the restThe mother of Jesus and his brothers arrived at the house.