(RNS) — Married to a member of an Episcopal church choir, I had the pleasure this past month of sitting through two performances of Lessons and Carols, the musical-scriptural summary of the reason for ...
Sunday, March 1, is the First Sunday of Lent (Year A). Mass readings: Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7; Psalm 51: 3-6, 12-13, 17; Romans 5:12-19; Matthew 4:1-11. Of the many themes in the creation story of ...
except the tree of knowledge of good and evil. From that tree you shall not eat; the moment you eat from it you are surely doomed to die.” Today’s first reading walks us through the precursor to the ...
The Expulsion of Adam and Eve, by Benjamin West. Source: Wikicommons/public domain. The Bible opens upon Adam and Eve, whom some believe to have been real people. Whether literal or allegorical, what ...
Are we to eat the etrog a couple of weeks early? While as your local Jewish preschooler can sing to you, on Rosh Hashanah we dip the apple in the honey, and on Sukkot we take the etrog and lulav and ...
The Expulsion of Adam and Eve, by Benjamin West. Source: Wikicommons/public domain. The Bible opens upon Adam and Eve, whom some believe to have been real people. Whether literal or allegorical, what ...