From the window of the Apostolic Palace Bergoglio invited us to think about the date of the first sacrament: ‘If you do not ...

Solemnity of the Baptism of the Lord year C ✠ A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke 3:15-16,21-22 A feeling of expectancy had grown among the people, who were beginning to think that John ...

Rev. Terry Goerz,Redeemer Lutheran Church. What would you do if you saw a valley full of skeletons? The Lord shows Ezekiel a valley full of dry bones and asks. “Can these bones live”. The Lord’s ...

Now when all the people were baptised by John the Baptist and when Jesus also had been baptised and was praying, the heavens were opened, and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form, like a ...

Anybody might think that the only words Lancelot Andrewes wrote were the ones that inspired T S Eliot’s The Journey of the ...

Jan. 12 is the date which most of us have already failed at and maybe even given up on our New Year’s resolutions. God will ...

2. Anointing: In baptism we are not just washed of sins, but we also become temples of the Holy Spirit. After baptism there ...

Titus 2:11-14; 3:4-7; Gospel: Luke 3:15-16, 21-22 Today, the Church celebrates the significant feast of the Baptism of the L ...

As we conclude our Christmas celebrations, having been blessed with the graces of the season and the opening of the Jubilee ...

Baptismal rituals in glacial lands hold memories of the past—and wisdom for facing climate change.

I can never forget the first baptism I celebrated. I was a transitional deacon assigned to a parish in the Archdiocese of ...

Isaiah 42:1-4, 6-7 or Isaiah 40:1-5, 9-11 Psalm 29:1-2, 3-4, 3, 9-10 or Psalm 29:1-2, 3-4, 3, 9-10 Acts 10:34-38 or Titus ...