GOD THE FATHER is the fountainhead of the Holy Trinity. The Scriptures reveal the one God is Three Persons — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — eternally sharing the one divine nature. From the Father the Son is begotten before all ages and all time (Ps. 2: 7; 2 Cor. Read more…
Read the penitential psalms {6, 32, 38, 51, 102, 129, 149}, Meditate on relevant Bible portions and the parables on repentance. Read also the prayers before confession, that is given in the Holy Qurbana Kramam. Take time to recall your sins, both voluntary and involuntary, in prayer and relying on Read more…
Holy Confession without proper preparation is a grave sin. Our desire to confess to God is always challenged by Satan. As a consequence, we refuse to acknowledge that we have sinned, and we also try to justify or find excuses for our sins. We should be prudent to recognise that Read more…
The New Year is the day that marks the end of one year and the beginning of the next year, and is the day on which the year count is incremented. The Bible does not speak for or against the concept of New Year’s resolutions. One of the traditions associated Read more…
“Guard the deposit” (1 Tim. 6:20). Tradition A tradition is an opinion, belief, story or custom that is memorized and handed down from generation to generation, from ancestors to posterity, originally without the need for a writing system. Its etymology is Latin, from the verb ‘tradere’ (traditio), which Read more…
Come, all you faithful, let us hasten to the Virgin: for long before her conception in the womb, the one who was to be born of the stem of Jesse was destined to be the Mother of God. The one who is the treasury of virginity, the flowering Rod of Read more…
Eutychus, whose name means ‘fortunate’, was a disciple and friend of St John the Theologian and St Paul. After hearing about Christ, the Savior, he became a disciple and servant of the Lord, worked with the Apostle Paul and together they preached in the early journeys. He belonged to the Read more…
We pray for the departed, for the same reasons as when praying for a living person! Prayer for the faithful departed, as well as the invocation of saints have been long cherished beliefs and practices of the early Christian Church and were expressions of the Christian faith, well founded on Read more…
Pharisees (Jn. 12: 19) the disciple whom Jesus loved (Jn. 13: 23-25) to Thomas (Jn. 14: 6) Peter (Jn. 13: 37) Judas Iscariot (Jn. 12: 6) Himself (Jn. 17: 1 -6), for His disciples (Jn. 17: 6-19), and for all believers / faithful (Jn. 17: 20 -26). Counsellor / Helper Read more…
Who said “see the whole world has gone after Jesus”? During the Last Supper, which disciple was sitting next to Jesus and reclining on Him? To whom did Jesus’ answer “I am the Way, and the Truth and the Life”? Which disciple was prepared to lay down Read more…