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Easily among the Holy Week traditions some remember the most is Visita Iglesia. Whether spurred on by the promise of getting ...

Studying some parts of the Pentateuch, one wonders if they are truly necessary. For example, this portion begins with a ...

The Tabernacle, a portable construction ... help create an internal space for divine presence in everyone. The main altar, mizbeah, is compared to the human trunk, the bulkiest material part.

The Haggadah says that we celebrate Passover as if we, today, were there. And yet after biblical times, early in the Talmudic era, the rabbis imagined a human hero at the Red Sea: Nachshon ben ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each ...

The altar is set behind a replica façade of an ancient boat. Both the lectern and the tabernacle are placed within the boat. When they were constructing the altar, the Legionaries had to receive ...

altar rail, and tabernacle, for the first time since its closure over 300 years ago. The Brick Chapel, originally built in 1667, has been dormant for over three centuries. Its reopening marks the ...

What is truth?” asked Pontius Pilate, of its use not conscious. File it away where you won’t find it when you need it, out of ...

One such relatable saint is St. José Luis Sánchez del Río, who stood up in the face of injustice and persecution of the Catholic faith by his government. St. José was born on March 28, 1913, in ...

Just the Sunday before Ash Wednesday I celebrated Mass at St Mary in Westcliffe, also blessing a beautiful altar and tabernacle they have just installed. The parishioners had been working on ...