The liturgy of Palm Sunday is dissonant, almost schizophrenic. It begins with jubilant rejoicing only to end in bitter ...

Many people choose to give up something during this season as an exercise in self-denial. Might we not instead ask God what ...

Pastor Russ of Westfield Methodist Church writes to encourage others to trust Jesus, who loves us so much. All are welcome at 154 Church Street, Sundays at 10:45 a.m. Email [email protected] ...

Holy Week and Easter are perhaps the most important days in the Christian calendar. Many associate those celebrations with ...

1 Corinthians 10:16 As Christians we are saved (i.e. prepared for heaven) through faith by grace - the free gift of God's life earned by Jesus Christ on the wood of the Cross (Eph 2:8-10 ...

Two women religious were murdered March 31 by armed gangs in the city of Mirebalais, Haiti, as long-standing violence ...

“We can walk as much as we want,” Pope Francis told the cardinals gathered for Mass the day after his election, “we can build many things, but if we do not profess Jesus Christ, things go ...

From the Book of the Prophet Isaiah. 53:4-6: Surely he has born our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our ...

In its annual report published in March, the U.S. government’s Commission on International Religious Freedom denounced ...

It is an extraordinary thing to make the Sign of the Cross on a person’s forehead ... stress, anxiety. Jesus has come to ease our sorrows, to set the downtrodden free, and to release those ...

My siblings and I lived together forever, and they could cross the border but not me ... While Melanie and Eddy live with their uncle, Jesus Leyva, 11-year-old Rafa resides in an orphanage ...