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1 day ago · Pointing to the creeds and councils in no way implies that the Bible is lacking, or that God’s revelation in Christ was incomplete. Instead, the creeds provide us with a roadmap of the “faith once delivered to the saints,” as St. Jude wrote. The Bible, read with the creeds as a guidepost, focus us on the revelation of God made known in Jesus.
11 hours ago · Christ is risen! “Before, we had been vessels of wrath (cf. Rom. 9:22-23). But we were made vessels of mercy by Him, Who bound the one who was strong compared to us; and seized his goods.
5 days ago · Orthodox believers are called to pursue deification, or divine qualities, according to a Russian Orthodox leader. The most powerful way to do this, he says, is through the Eurcharist. Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev spoke with EWTN about the importance of the Eucharist at the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest, Hungary, on Sept. 6.
4 days ago · The saints in Heaven are not dead. That is a fundamental rejection of what Christ did during His decent into Hades. He emptied the graves of the righteous dead and pulled everyone into heaven. Christ Himself said in the Gospels, God is not the God of the dead, He is the God of the living. For in Christ, all are alive (Luke 20:38).
1 day ago · Christianity, major religion stemming from the life, teachings, and death of Jesus of Nazareth (the Christ, or the Anointed One of God) in the 1st century ce. It has become the largest of the world’s religions and, geographically, the most widely diffused of all faiths. It has a constituency of more than two billion believers.
2 days ago · Christianity (/ k r ɪ s tʃ i ˈ æ n ɪ t i, k r ɪ s t i ˈ æ n ɪ t i /) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.It is the world's largest and most widespread religion with roughly 2.4 billion followers, comprising around 31.2% of the world population.
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3 days ago · July 22nd is the feast day of St. Mary Magdalene. Not much is known about Mary Magdalene. She first appears in the Gospel of Luke as a follower of Christ from whom 7 demons have been cast out. In the Gospels, she is sometimes associated with two other women in Scripture: the woman who washes Jesus’ feet with oil and Mary, the sister of Martha ...
