nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp This Gospel story takes place after Jesus has entered Jerusalem Palm Sunday and before his Last Supper nbsp Here Sadducees present a problem to Jesus it is constructed so as to make belief in a resurrection from the dead foolish and impossible nbsp Sadducees believ

Last year for the Solemnity of All Saints I wrote on the first reading from Revelation 7 to which I referred again in the recent post on ldquo lukewarm rdquo Catholics Recently Fr James Martin drew attention to the saints as he often does in a short video examining the question of who and wh

Luke includes in his Gospel an account found nowhere else in the Gospel tradition a story which fits well with many of the Lucan themes regarding the value and danger of wealth and possessions ndash not to say that these are not concerns of Jesus himself or not found in the other Gospels just t

In an interview reported in USA Today Archbishop John Nienstedt ldquo said Jesus Christ directed his followers to lsquo either be hot or cold but if you re lukewarm I don t want that So we want people who live their faith rsquo rdquo This interview was given in response both to a controvers

In the most recent episode of Community a comedy on NBC the character Abed who is both Muslim and has Asperger rsquo s Syndrome reads the New Testament The episode Messianic Myths and Ancient Peoples presents the character Shirley who is a devout Christian musing on the popularity of YouTube

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp The physical circumstance nbsp The Temple in this story is the building which sits on a large platform the size of a soccer field nbsp The Temple rsquo s rearmost part is God rsquo s dwelling place and opens outward and eastward to still other sacred rooms nbsp