One would say that Judas Iscariot was the supreme enigma of the New Testament, the Apostle who betrayed his own divine master. Very little is told about him in the New Testament, beyond the bare facts of his name in the apostolate, his treachery and his death. We are told Read more
St. Thomas, one of the twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ was born in Galilee. St. Thomas, the Apostle of India, is known as the Twin; Doubting Thomas; and also, Didymus. In John 11: 16, he is identified and referred to as ‘Thomas, surnamed Didymus, the twin’ (Heb. Thomas, Gk. Didymus– ‘twin). He is called Judas Thomas Read more
Philip is another of the apostles who has been rescued from the oblivion of the fourth Gospel. The first three Gospels record nothing about him except his name. In the fourth Gospel Philip figures most prominently and becomes a person and a personality. Like the brothers, Peter and Andrew, Philip Read more
James the son of Alphaeus is one of the more obscure of Jesus’ twelve disciples. His name appears in each of the four lists of the disciples in the New Testament found in Matthew 10: 2–4, Mark 3: 14–19, Luke 6: 13–16, and Acts 1: 13. But not much else Read more
Judas often called Jude in English is variously named. Jerome called him Thaddaeus Trinomius, which means a man with three names. In Mark he is Thaddeus. In Matthew he is called Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddeus. He is variously named, but this is not surprising. Before Crucifixion, there was a Read more
Please read the lesson before the class, try to understand as much as you can 🙏🏻 Also, read lessons 2 & 3 of Rituals are Meaningful on Holy Baptism & Holy Matrimony as revision Peter is the name by which we know best this apostle, who is named first, in Read more
Bartholomew is mentioned sixth in the Synoptic Gospels, after the name of Philip and seventh in the list of Acts and not mentioned in the Gospel of John (Matt. 10:3; Mk. 3:18; Lk. 6:14; and Acts 1:13). St. John refers to him as Nathaniel (Jn. 1: 45-49, 21: 2). The Read more
Simon the Zealot is one of the most obscure among the apostles of Jesus, a man about whom we know so little, to add to the fact that, his name also produces problem. The name occurs in all four lists of Apostles. To distinguish him from Simon Peter, he is called Read more
The Apostle and Evangelist St. John, called the Theologian, was the son of Salome and Zebedee and brother of James the greater. He was a fisherman by trade and while he and his brother were engaged in mending their nets in the boat by the lakeside with their father that Read more
James, the brother of John and son of Zebedee and Salome, is the most tantalizingly figures among the twelve. James is often styled the ‘the Greater’ (Jacobus Major) to mean older or taller, as he was first, called by Christ as His disciple, before Apostle James ‘the Less’, who was Read more