The fourteenth century was a era of crisis. A “little ice” age led to famine, but a greater disaster followed:…
It was promoted as a fact-based treatment of the events surrounding the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima in 1917.…
Here we have these scriptural bible texts. I will go through with you, about the miraculous way of Jesus's healing, and his stories he would share to make a point, message, or moral. Parables are a simple story used to illustrate moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the gospel while meaning not stated it is often obvious. A miracle is an event which the forces of nature-including the natural powers of man-cannot of themselves produce, and which must therefore, be referred to a supernatural agency. Bible miracles, has two different miracles; healing and nature. This essay will talk about two stories, a healing miracle and a parable.…
This essay will outline the development of the celebration of the Sacrament of the Eucharist from the Early Church, paying particular focus on how the Eucharist is celebrated in the church since the Second Vatican Council.…
The Church has held Mary’s perpetual virginity as a dogma, and it is also true that it has brought about distrust and doubt. This skepticism towards Mary’s virginity has grown through out the history of man kind. At the very heart of this dogma lies the credence of the Church and of the Magisterium, who have the proficiency to maintain Mary’s perpetual virginity as an absolute truth. This upholding has perpetually led to the debate of whether Mary, Mother of Jesus, was in fact a virgin through out her entire life. Many see this affirmation as impossible, nonetheless the Church has always believed Mary remain a virgin “during childbirth and after childbirth.” Conversely many people do agree with this statement for the mere belief that the Bible…
Repentance is at the center of Christian life, but the sacraments of the Church do not reflect this focus…
Sacraments are the Christian rituals that most believers hold dearly. The Baptism and the Eucharist are the two most important sacraments or ordinances in the life of Christians. Baptism is the cleansing with water that is carried out to symbolically accept a new born into the Christian fold. Eucharist or the Lord’s Supper is a symbolic representation of the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ (Stofka,…
The Luminous Mysteries were introduced to the rosary by St. John Paul the Great. These incidents in the life of Jesus bear enormous significance in that they were each enacted for our salvation and edification,…
The early church referred to the word sacrament in Greek as mysterion which means “mystery.” In Latin the word has been known as sacramentum which indicates a “vow” or a “promise.” This asserts that “the sacraments were instituted by Christ and given to the church.” This further explicates the concept of sacrament to be a mystery because Jesus Christ is a “manifestation of a sacrament.” This is relative to God’s mystery about being born through a human body. Furthermore, Christ continues to show mysterious through the church, which is the body of Christ. This further leads one to know that it is through one’s baptism, that one receives an “identity” and learns about one’s “mission” in the Christian faith. Also, that as a believer that practices the Holy Communion is a sacrament that “sustains and nourishes us in our journey of…
A sacrament is a tangible connection between Heaven and Earth along with how God's love and essence is physically here on Earth. Jesus Christ is the essence of God on Earth in human form. He preaches the ideas and serves as the son of God to his kingdom. When people preach, serve, and worship, God's power is present and the people remember what Jesus was all about when he was on Earth and therefore what God was all about. The concept of God is spread through ideas like the Pentecost, Paul and his conversion, and even in the catacombs of Rome.…
In the book of John we know from our reading that there were at least eight known miracles during Jesus’s time on the earth that He performed. My paper will give a brief description of each and how they reveal His deity.…
Patria, Sor Mercedes, as she liked to call herself, would walk around the halls of her childhood home with a plain white sheet wrapped around her head, clutching an imaginary rosary to her heart. At fourteen, Patria received her wish and was sent to Immaculada Concepcion, in order to further her knowledge of His word. Many people viewed this as a “pity” (p.45). Patria was “such a pretty girl” (p.45), with her “high firm breasts and sweet oval face.” She did not let the words of others stray her from the path of the Lord, and put all of her energy into bettering herself through Him.…
There are three things that spread the Christ-life to us; baptism, belief, and the Lord’s Supper (Lewis 61). This statement, by C.S. Lewis, is his example of three ordinary methods in which one can “find new life after we have died and in it become perfect” (Lewis 60). It was the belief of Lewis that because Jesus sacrificed himself, yet he was perfect, humans can be saved from death. Two of Lewis’s three methods, Baptism and the Lord’s Supper, are sacraments in Christianity. The act of baptizing is known as the Sacrament of Baptism. The Lord’s Supper is also known as Holy Communion and Eucharist. There are several different sacraments which are practiced within the many denominations of Christianity.…
This paper talks about Jesus and the nativity scene. The Nativity of Jesus, also The Nativity, refers to the accounts of the birth of Jesus, primarily based on the two accounts in the gospels of Luke and Matthew, and secondarily on some apocryphal texts. The word is anglicized from Latin De nativitate Iesu, a section title in the Vulgate.…
The church is seen as having from God a system of conveying God's grace direct to humanity. The ordinary Catholic recites the sacraments of penance once per year and the Eucharist. The Eucharist is the center of public worship, often embellished with solemn ceremony.…