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 Second Kings we read the story of Elisha surrounded by the Syrian ... the Holy Spirit is found not only in the New Testament but also in the Old Testament. The second verse of the Bible speaks ...

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 ...

The service always includes one or more psalms. These ancient prayers, taken from the Old Testament, reflect the full range of human emotions and experiences; from the depths of anger, resentment, and ...

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 ...