Number of articles: 18

Carrying the Cross

Sometimes the moments that change your life arrive unexpectedly, when you're distracted, confused, or wishing you were anywhere else. That's what happened to Simon of Cyrene.

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A Daughter of Jerusalem

Not all stories of courage begin with heroic deeds. Determined hearts are forged one day at a time.

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At the Foot of the Cross

Tullius was a young Roman soldier entrusted with a seemingly ordinary task: watching over some condemned prisoners.

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The Lamp That Never Goes Out: The Confession at Caesarea and the Transfiguration

At Caesarea, Peter did not understand that following Jesus entails self-giving and sacrifice. On Mount Tabor, however, he began to grasp that Christ’s glory passes through suffering and that the cross is not the end, but the passage to the resurrection.

Looking at Jesus' Face

With a little imagination, we can put ourselves in Veronica's shoes. She overcame her shame and fear to comfort Jesus on the way to Calvary.

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Have You No Faith?

Before the sorrow and scandal of the Cross, we have Jesus’s silence: silence and a promise. “Behold your Mother,” He told John, promising that we would always have Mary’s example of faith and love.

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At Home in Bethany

Mary, Martha, and Lazarus are tense as they start to worry that something big is going to happen in the next few days.

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The Donkey on Palm Sunday

Why would Jesus choose a donkey to accompany him in his triumphant entry into Jerusalem? Why not a beautiful horse? Using a bit of imagination, we delve into the character of the donkey to experience this scene from the Gospel as another character.

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What a Coin is Worth

This time we’re going to put ourselves in Matthew’s shoes. He was the apostle who left his job and his life as a tax collector to follow Jesus from the day He called him to the day he died.

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The Evening of the Last Supper

“We all took our places at the table. The mood was bittersweet,” Peter says in this dramatized account of the apostles’ feelings at the Last Supper.

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