COMMENTARY: Baptism makes us missionary disciples in communion with God and each other. As children of God, we are sent out ...
Our Lord’s baptism offers a beautiful opportunity to reflect on the graces we receive through the sacrament of baptism. In seminary, one of our professors taught us a little shortcut to help us ...
Ethiopia's Orthodox Christians are celebrating Epiphany, locally known as Timkat. Monday's celebrations commemorate the ...
The Orthodox Church celebrated, on Friday, its yearly pilgrimage to Al-Maghtas, the site of Jesus Christ's baptism, which ...
During the liturgy, the faithful were sprinkled with holy water that had been collected from the Jordan River before Mass, ...
The Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (BOR), His Beatitude Daniel said on Monday, after blessing the clergy of the Patriarchal Cathedral with the Great Holy Water, that the Baptism of the Lord ...
When Jesus came to John to be baptized, Matthew tells us, “John tried to prevent him, saying, ‘I need to be baptized by you, ...
Catholic clergy representing the Latin Church as well as Greek Catholics, Maronites, Chaldeans, Syriacs and Armenians ...
Our liturgies carry us to Christ; our worship becomes an encounter. What we adore is revealed in sacrament, revealing our ...
Life and love are not earned by us, nor do we take them, but we receive these good gifts from God with gratitude, writes Msgr. Joseph Prior on the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. By our baptism, we ...
Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson marks a fresh chapter in her life with a baptism in Georgia, receiving an outpouring of support from ...
Just as we wouldn't leave newborns without clothes or food, we cannot leave them without faith and baptism, Pope Leo XIV told ...