This Sunday's lectionary reading in Year A is the baptism of Jesus from Matt 3.13–17. It is a short and compact reading, and ...

Yesterday we celebrated the great feast of the Epiphany, how the adventure of Christ’s mission and divinity was revealed to the world. Yesterday the focus was upon the visit of the Magi, and today we ...

Today we keep the feast of the Baptism of Christ. It’s somewhat ironic that for most of us, the day of our baptism is not something that we remember. Most of us were babies when our parents brought us ...

Today we hear Luke’s account of Jesus’ baptism. The surrounding passages can help to contextualize the Gospel and reflect on its significance as the birth of Jesus’ public ministry. The beginning of ...

This Sunday, Christians are celebrating the feast of the Baptism of the Lord Jesus; with the following readings for meditation: Isaiah 42:1-4, 6-7; Psalm 29; Acts 10:34-38; Matthew 3:13-17.

Pope St. John Paul II, in his 2002 Apostolic Letter, Rosarium Virginis Mariae, proposed adding a fourth quintet of mysteries to be contemplated when praying the Rosary: the Luminous Mysteries. Leaving ...

“There is a baptism with which I must be baptized. And how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!” (Luke 12:49). To understand Jesus’ anguish, we need to remember what baptism is. The act of ...

Christians who practise believer’s baptism accept that a person needs to be able to claim Jesus as their personal saviour. The celebration of baptism is a way of showing that this belief exists, and ...

At 11 a.m. on Sunday Jan. 12, everyone is invited to celebrate the First Sunday after the Epiphany at Bethel AME Church, located at 101 North Fourth St. in Corsicana. The message will be entitled “The ...

“Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth?” (Luke 12:50). History shows that social change happens in one of two ways, by evolution or by revolution. Evolution implies gradual ...