In our Gospel reading today, Jesus challenges the narrow view of God held by the people of Nazareth, his hometown. Just as ...

Throughout the Old Testament, we gain an understanding that ... thus manifesting his glory. The prophet Elisha, who prefigures Jesus, is an instrument of God’s healing and raising from the ...

When I encounter the word “resurrection,” my mind goes immediately to the three long days and nights our Savior lay bound in death in a cold, dark and borrowed tomb.

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 ...

To give a proper perspective on the New Covenant sacrament of reconciliation instituted by Christ, we will explore the Old Testament prefiguration of this sacrament. In the next column ...

Weekly sermon summaries for local and area churches.

But the city of prophets, the city with peace in its name, is not living up to what it should be. And Jesus laments that fact.