Every year, 19 days after Pentecost, the Catholic Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. But where did that tradition originate? Devotion to the wounded heart of Jesus has its ...
"The prayer of the Church venerates and honors the Heart of Jesus . . . which, out of love for men, he allowed to be pierced by our sins." 2 Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is of great antiquity ...
Pope Francis seems to be fixated on the wounds of Christ. And he has suggested that other Catholics might want to be as well. He has offered meditations on Jesus' pierced hands, feet and side ...
THE revelation of God is Christ. God came to earthly realm in Jesus Christ. Christianity is the life of Christ in the heart of the believer and results in the manifestation of the presence of Christ ...
How many injuries—and how many deaths—are acceptable in the name of faith? After the Traslacion left three devotees dead and around 1,700 others treated for injuries and exhaustion, the casualties sho ...
For centuries, the image of Jesus Nazareno has been closely associated with Quiapo Church, having been transferred there from the Recoletos church in Intramuros between 1767 and 1787. Yet far from ...