by communication | Dec 16, 2022 | Latest News
Christmas stories In the Middle Ages, Catholic pilgrims would visit the main sites of Jerusalem, and then set out on a multi-day pilgrimage to Bethlehem and the mountains of Judah. They were accompanied by a guide and interpreter (the dragoman) and by some Franciscan...
by communication | Dec 16, 2022 | Latest News
Most probably, the Holy Family traveled to Bethlehem along the pilgrim’s way. It wasn’t the shortest, but it was the safest and most cost-effective for a poor and pious family. Upon leaving Nazareth, Joseph and Mary went across Cana. Before reaching the Lake of...
by communication | Dec 16, 2022 | Latest News
A covenant is a bilateral agreement in which each of the contracting parties makes some sort of serious commitment. In the ancient Near East, covenant treaties between heads of nomadic clans, or also between nations and kingdoms, established agreements between peoples...
by administrative | Nov 22, 2022 | Latest News
The legacy of Isaiah in the Bible is grandiose. In the fourth century, Saint Jerome, with his passion for Scripture, calls him “not just prophet, but evangelist and apostle” (PL XXIV, 18). As evangelist, he draws a portrait of the Messiah -700 years before...
by administrative | Nov 22, 2022 | Latest News
Until the thirteenth century, many theologians thought that Mary was conceived with the stain of original sin and subsequently, the same as John the Baptist and others, was cured of it in the maternal womb. Even Thomas Aquinas describes it that way, saying that “if...
by administrative | Nov 22, 2022 | Latest News
“As he was passing by the Sea of Galilee,” one day, Jesus “saw Simon and Andrew, Simon’s brother, casting their nets into the sea; they were fishermen” (Mk 1,16). Later, under very similar circumstances, Jesus called the sons of Zebedee. “And...
