Category: John the Baptist

The Baptism of the Lord

by bcadmin | Jan 9, 2022 | 2022, Benedict XVI, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Fr. Bevil Bramwell OMI, John the Baptist, News, The Baptism of Christ by Andrea del Verrocchio and Leonardo da Vinci, The Catholic Thing | 0 |

Fr. Bevil Bramwell: We’re a long way from the Baptist’s first preaching on repentance. Yet the softening of our hearts still comes from Jesus.

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Joy! Anticipation! Fire?

by bcadmin | Dec 11, 2021 | Advent, Baptism, G.K. Chesterton, gaudette sunday, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, News, St. John Chrysostom, The Dispatch, Zephaniah | 0 |

Readings: • Zep 3:14-18a • Is 12:2-3, 4, 5-6 • Phil 4:4-7 • Lk 3:10-18 “Great joy,” wrote G. K. Chesterton, “has in it the sense of immortality…” Joy, like love, hope, and goodness, cannot […]

Justice, peace and the call of our baptism

by bcadmin | Dec 7, 2021 | Advent, John the Baptist, Justice, Matthew, News, peace, Second Sunday of Advent, You brood of vipers | 0 |

Some awfully nice visions of the future are painted in this year’s readings for the Second Sunday of Advent — peace and justice, primarily.

Telling the scriptural story of John the Baptist

by bcadmin | Dec 7, 2021 | Advent, Elijah, Gospel, Hairy garment, Herod, Herodias, John the Baptist, Luke, News, Scriptural story | 0 |

The story of John the Baptist really begins when he … But wait! His story is multifaceted in ways history often overlooked. How should it start?

Hope, the Future, and Advent

by bcadmin | Dec 5, 2021 | 2021, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Fr. Peter M.J. Stravinskas, God, God is Fidelity Personified, Hope and the Future and Advent, Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, Lk 1:63, News, The Catholic Thing, Zechariah, Zechariah and Elizabeth | 0 |

Fr. Peter Stravinskas: Faith doesn’t mean not seeing evidence for belief but a kind of vision that reveals the world from a divine perspective

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Rome Remembers

by bcadmin | Oct 21, 2021 | 2021, Agatha, Agnes, Alexander, Anastasia, Barnabas, Cecilia, Chrysogonus, Clement, Cletus, Columns, Cornelius, Cosmas and Damian, Cyprian, Felicity, Holiness lives in history, Ignatius, John and Paul, John the Baptist, Lawrence, Linus, Lucy, Marcellinus, martyr frescos, Matthias, News, Perpetua, Peter, Pope St. John Paul II, Rome Remembers, Sixtus, St. John XXIII, St. Peter's Basilica, Stephen, Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing, universality = catholicity | 0 |

Stephen P. White: Holiness lives in history. In all the saints, especially in the martyrs, the light of Christ bursts through into history.

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Remembering 1066

by bcadmin | Oct 12, 2021 | 2021, Brad Miner, Columns, Edward king of Wessex, edward the confessor, John the Baptist, News, Pope Alexander III, Remembering 1066, St. Peter's Abbey, The Catholic Thing, Westminster Abbey, William the Conquerer, Wilton Diptych | 0 |

Brad Miner: Tomorrow we celebrate Edward the Confessor: leader of a nation who was devoutly Catholic in an epoch of sinners and saints.

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A Shout Out to Mary

by bcadmin | Aug 18, 2021 | 1 Chronicles 15:28, 2021, A Shout Out to Mary by Michael Pakaluk, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Cornelius Ryan's A Bridge too Far, cried out in a loud voice, Hail Mary, Holy Spirit, James Patrick Reid, John Calvin, John the Baptist, Luke 1:41, Magna voce clamavit, Magnificat, Mary and Elizabeth, Michael Pakaluk, News, St. Ambrose, The Catholic Thing, The Visitation, ubi domini sensit adventum | 0 |

Michael Pakaluk: At the Visitation, the words exchanged aren’t mere curiosities for future Christians, but something like a canon of prayer.

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The Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world

by bcadmin | Jan 15, 2021 | Catholic Hotdish, John the Baptist, Lamb of God, News | 0 |

When John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him, he announced, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world.” How is Jesus a lamb? How does Jesus take away sins?

Come and see

by bcadmin | Jan 14, 2021 | Come and see, Father Carl, Gospel of John, John the Baptist, News, Sunday Scriptures | 0 |

In the Gospel of John there are certain questions that jump off the page, significant beyond their immediate context. In the Gospel for the second Sunday of Ordinary Time (Jn 1:35-42) we have one such question. It is, in fact, Jesus’ first words in that Gospel account: “What are you looking for?”

The Baptism of Jesus Christ: Cosmic blessing and invitation to divine life

by bcadmin | Jan 8, 2021 | Baptism of Christ, Hippolytus, Holy Spirit, John the Baptist, News, St. Ambrose, The Dispatch, Trinity | 0 |

Readings: • Is 42:1-4, 6-7 or Is 55:1-11 • Ps 29:1-2, 3-4, 3, 9-10 or Ps 104:1b-2, 3-4, 24-25, 27-28, 29-30 • Acts 10:34-38 or 1 Jn 5:1-9 • Mk 1:7-11 Why be a Catholic? […]

Why did Jesus choose to be baptized?

by bcadmin | Jan 8, 2021 | Baptism, John the Baptist, News, Practicing Catholic, Relevant Radio, The Rediscover: Hour, Why did Jesus choose to be baptized | 0 |

On Jan. 10, the first Sunday after Epiphany, the Catholic Church celebrates Jesus’ baptism. But why would the son of God choose to be baptized?