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Matthew 3: 13-17, Isaiah 42:1-9
This weekend, along with Christians across tradition, we observe the feast day of the Baptism of Our Lord – the day that commemorates Jesus’ baptism by John in the Jordan River. That moment, as we heard in our Gospel from St. Matthew – as Jesus comes out of the water, as God’s Spirit descended over him, God’s...
John 1:1-18
The passage I read is the prologue to John’s gospel. He’s previewing how he intends to answer the question addressed by all the gospels: Who is this man Jesus that we should worship him?
The other gospels pretty much proclaim Jesus is the Jewish Messiah, but this presents a problem. As any good Jew knows Jesus does not fit the ...
In 1816, Joseph Mohr was a Catholic priest in Oberndorf, near the newly Austrian town of Salzburg, Austria, Europe was recovering from the Napoleonic Wars, and the continent was dealing with significant financial and economic scarcity. Floods and famine were prevalent, but the war had finally come to an end.
Legend has it that in the midst of the chaos of a town re...
John 1:1-14
If you were to travel to Nazareth, to the town where Jesus grew up, and were to visit the Church of the Annunciation, making your way into the lower basilica, your eyes would quickly be drawn to a Latin phrase inscribed below the grotto alt...
