The fifth joyful mystery was probably very joyful for Mary and Joseph ... they went up according to festival custom.” In Jesus’ day, while the Temple still existed, devout Jews made a ...

What could be (or should be) more welcome around Christmastime than a movie about Mary and the birth of Jesus? On Dec. 6 ... until she is brought to the Temple. There, Mary is met by Anna ...

When I pray these mysteries, the idea that most often comes to mind is the littleness of Jesus (and, for that matter, of Mary ... laying eyes on Jesus in the Temple—the fifth and final joyful ...

The Gospels were compiled after the Romans destroyed the temple at Jerusalem in 70 and should be interpreted in that fiery light. The historical Jesus still fascinates, but sieving original ...

He was speaking to the people once more, at the Feast of Tabernacles, where there would have been a huge menorah on display in the temple ... Jesus could get to his house in Bethany. His sisters ...

Magdalene is the most famous woman in Christianity after Jesus ... he met Mary of Egypt, instead. “The great moment of the story is he’s going in search of a desert father, and finds ...

“The Chosen: Last Supper” focuses on the events of Holy Week — including Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, the cleansing of the Temple ... and how he finds himself in a new leadership ...

You've got the turning over of the tables in the temple. You got the Last Supper. You got Judas’ betrayal.” Yet even the small moments are impactful, Jenkins says, like when Jesus is by ...

A young Mary is depicted on the steps of the Temple with her parents, Sts. Anne and Joachim, the grandparents of Jesus. The mosaic completed by Pietro Paolo Cristofari in 1728 is based on a ...

(OK, the Devil.) No genre gesture goes untapped in the deliberately hagiographic “Mary,” a coming-of-age saga about the mother of Jesus. Directed by D.J. Caruso and written by Timothy Michael ...