The Canaanite woman who approached Christ, begging Him to heal her demon-possessed daughter, was a Gentile. At that time, the Jews-the only people who believed in the One God-did not associate with Gentiles; they kept away from them and shunned them. Yet this woman comes up to Christ, and this alone shows that she saw […]
A paralyzed man was brought to the Lord Jesus Christ by four of his friends; and seeing their faith, Christ told the paralytic that healing was possible and commanded him to rise. There are two things in this account that I would like us to consider. First, the man was ill, he was in […]
. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Today we celebrate the day of all saints. Each of us, at baptism, is named after one of the saints, in whom the glory of God, His splendor, His beauty has shone forth; each of us is dedicated to […]
The Lord in His Gospel, as the evangelist John narrates, says: When the Son of Man is lifted up from the earth, He will draw all to Himself… And these words pertain to two events in the life of the Savior, the Son of God, who became the son of man, our brother in the […]
