Sunday Within the Octave of Christmas — A Message From Pope Benedict XVI
Vittore Carpaccio, 1510
Translation of the Gospel According to Luke (2:33-40)
At that time Joseph and Mary, the mother of Jesus, were wondering at those things which were spoken concerning Him, And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary His Mother: Behold this child is set for the fall […]
A Message on the Word’s Mission
The Nativity, Altarpiece of the Seven Joys,
cir. 1480
FOR THIS PURPOSE, then, the incorporeal and incorruptible and immaterial Word of God entered our world. In one sense, indeed, He was not far from it before, for no part of creation had ever been without Him Who, while […]
A Message from St. Jerome
Correggio, cir. 1515 (digitally restored)
But as we do not deny what is written, so we do reject what is not written. We believe that God was born of the Virgin, because we read it. That Mary was married after she brought forth, we do not […]
Fourth Sunday of Advent — A Message from St. Pope John Paul II
Antoine de Favray, 1759
Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Luke (3:1-6)
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of […]
