The severity of Nadav and Avihu’s punishment prompts Jewish reflection. A Sanhedrin was deemed severe if issuing a death ...

Masses concluded throughout the Arlington diocese April 17, Catholics quietly sojourned to seven churches, visiting Jesus in ...

Four hundred fifty prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah battled with Elijah on Mount Carmel. Elijah was outnumbered, 850 to one. Knowing the odds were stacked, Elijah allowed the prophets of ...

What is clear is what the two young men did: They brought lit coals to the tabernacle’s altar when they should have waited for a fire from heaven. Aaron’s sons, Nadav and Avihu, each took a ...

The Henry C. Koch-designed Gesu Church, 1145 W. Wisconsin Ave., completed in 1894, is currently undergoing a more than $10 ...

Historic St. Mary's City, a Maryland-based museum and archaeological organization, is opening up a reconstructed 17th-century ...

This stone contains some holy relics sealed up in it by the bishop, and if the altar is of wood this stone is inserted just in front of the Tabernacle. The altar stone reminds us of the early ...

Each year on Aug. 5 the church liturgical calendar commemorates the dedication of St. Mary Major (in Italian, Santa Maria ...

Miller also noted that the original tabernacle of the church survived ... So the grave distribution showed us also where the altar area, the formal area, began." Still, the process has been ...

The Church - stripped of its ornaments, the altar bare, and with the door of the empty tabernacle standing open - is as if in mourning. In the fourth century the Apostolic Constitutions described ...