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I just want bless all of you on this blessed Easter morning. We are all blessed by having Christ rise from His ultimate sacrifice for our sins!

John 20:1-10 (KJV) 1The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. 2Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the LORD out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him. 3Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre. 4So they ran both together: and the other disciple did out run Peter, and came first to...

Note: Jack originally published this article in 2003. It remains one of the most popular on this site, and for good reason. It’s a great example of what we love about his studies: taking God at His Word and not relying on human logic or tradition. This study has been an eye opener for so many, but some have had a hard time reconciling the differences between the Jewish calendar and their own, in particular, that the Jewish day begins at sundown. I created the new image you’ll find at the bottom of the article, hoping that a visual representation...

And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified. Matthew 27:23 Being part Black and American Indian makes me only needing homosexual grandparents to be the liberal oppressed trifecta. In reality it makes me and my family the American melting pot. After researching my ancestry, it appears when my family’s first Bray, Peter Bray came across from England in 1735 he married a woman whose father Abraham Scott was a freed slave from England and her mother was half Cherokee and half German. The black man bought a...

He's reported via Facebook that he's had a heart attack.

In this Easter season, I have been thinking about the importance of redemption. Over the years, by virtue of circulation in political circles, I have known personally some people involved in public scandals. The world watches as the media follows them relentlessly for days, weeks, or even months and then evaporates, leaving behind a scene of complete and utter self-inflicted personal destruction. Some of these folks are often distraught to the point of suicide. What the cameras don’t show is what happens after the hoopla dies down. Sometimes these folks turn inward and become bitter and permanently broken, but not...

HA PEASTER TO EVERYONE!

Christian audiences have felt a little burned lately by bad movies on biblical subjects. But one really good movie can change all that. "Ben Hur," "The Robe," "The Ten Commandments," "Quo Vadis?" -- who can forget the golden age of biblical films? But that was the 1950s, and this is 2016. Biblically based movies these days often comes across as, well, less than inspired. Writers and directors sometimes play fast and loose with the source material, leaving out crucial details and inventing some bizarre stuff. Worse, portrayals of God often come across as flippant or even blasphemous. And that's just...

Jesus is real to me! A homily for Easter Sunday By: Msgr. Charles PopeNearly all of the Resurrection accounts in the Gospels present the apostles and disciples on a journey to deeper faith. In stages, they come out of the darkness of despair and of this world into the light of faith. Matthew’s account (28:1-10), which is read at the Easter Vigil this year and can also be read at Masses during the day, is no exception. I have also commented on the Johannine Gospel that is often read on Easter Morning (here: From Fear to Faith).Let’s look at...

You are not alone look beside you and find me filling your Wellspring with hope even now as the enemy flees with his lies and " T "rue hope becomes your warmth and understanding, that My light is upon you to shed all darkness and though things now seem out of reach "Truly " (( ( I AM ) )) and this is all you Truly need to know for I have already laid out your steps before Me and nothing can alter your path in Me alone . So come closer and completely dissolve all your worries into Me...

Christ the Lord is risen today Alleluia Sons of men and angels say Alleluia Raise your joys and triumphs high Alleluia Sing ye heavens and earth reply Alleluia Lives again our glorious king Alleluia Where o death is now thy sting Alleluia Dying once He all doth save Alleluia Where thy victory oh grave Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia Love’s redeeming work is done Alleluia Fought the fight the battle won Alleluia Death in vain forbids him rise Alleluia Christ has opened paradise Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia Soar we now where Christ has led Alleluia Following our exalted head Alleluia Made...

Sunday's coming...

In spite of last week’s claims in Turkey that his country is not a Judeo-Christian nation, President Barack Obama will learn soon enough that erasing religious beliefs from the human heart is not a “Yes We Can” kind of mandate.

Wishing everyone a very Happy Easter. May God Bless each and every one of you And God Bless America.

“The Great Easter Proclamation” (Luke 24:1-12)It’s very early in the morning, on Sunday, the first day of the week. A group of women are getting together some embalming spices to go and anoint the body of their friend, their teacher, who had died a couple of days earlier. This is the first chance they have to do this task, since the body was buried late on Friday afternoon. Then came the Sabbath, Saturday, when these Jewish women could do no work. So now, first thing Sunday, they’re getting as early a start as possible to do this loving task for...

Friday, I wrote about the betrayal and murder of the Son of God, without a doubt the day that humanity was at its very worst. After the Lord was dead and the people realized the enormity of the atrocity they had comitted, He was taken down from the cross and laid in a tomb. Jesus’s disciples despaired. The Romans, trying to stop a nascent rebellion, ordered that the tomb be guarded day and night and that a large rock be placed in front of it. The tomb was owned by a wealthy man named Joseph of Arimithea, fulfilling the old...

Once there reigned a queen, in whose garden were found the most glorious flowers at all seasons and from all the lands of the world. But more than all others she loved the roses, and she had many kinds of this flower, from the wild dog-rose with its apple-scented green leaves to the most splendid, large, crimson roses. They grew against the garden walls, wound themselves around the pillars and wind-frames, and crept through the windows into the rooms, and all along the ceilings in the halls. And the roses were of many colors, and of every fragrance and form....

The Pascal Sermon of St. John Chrysostomos Is there anyone who is a devout lover of God? Let them enjoy this beautiful bright festival! Is there anyone who is a grateful servant? Let them rejoice and enter into the joy of their Lord! Are there any weary with fasting? Let them now receive their wages! If any have toiled from the first hour, let them receive their due reward; If any have come after the third hour, let him with gratitude join in the Feast! And he that arrived after the sixth hour, let him not doubt; for he too...

  Isaias 53: 10-12 And the Lord was pleased to bruise him in infirmity: if he shall lay down his life for sin, he shall see a long lived seed, and the will of the Lord shall be prosperous in his hand. Because his soul hath laboured, he shall see and be filled: by his knowledge shall this my just servant justify many, and he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I distribute to him very many, and he shall divide the spoils of the strong, because he hath delivered his soul unto death, and was reputed with the...