Through parents Zacharias and Elizabeth, John's arrival marked the climax of the old Jewish covenant and the dawn of a new.
Sunday, June 24, is the Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. Mass Readings: Isaiah 49:1-6; Psalm 139:1-3, 13-15; Acts 13:22-26; Luke 1:57-66, 80. Today the Church celebrates the Nativity ...
St. John the Baptist is revered in Christian churches as the last great prophet who foretold the coming of the Messiah. A Jewish contemporary of Jesus Christ, he was known for his evangelizing and for ...
June 24 is the Feast Day of St. John the Baptist's birth and that means a very busy day for Father John Fitzpatrick, the rector of the Church of San Silvestro in Capite, where the decapitated head of ...
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - To commemorate the birth of John the Baptist “means in actual fact, to celebrate Christ, the fulfilment of the promises of all the prophets of whom the greatest was the ...
Some years ago, artist St. Joseph Sr. Marian Cowan created a small sculpture of the Visitation. It depicts two pregnant women seated, bending toward one another, knee to knee, engrossed in each ...
Every year, the Church reserves the Second and Third Sundays of Advent to introduce us to the person and preaching of St. John the Baptist. The Second Sunday usually presents his figure, while the ...
The American political drama “West Wing” has been a huge hit on television in recent seasons. Well-scripted, cleverly cast and finely acted, it dramatizes events around the most powerful office in the ...
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