In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith – more precious than gold that perishes though ...

Pastor and theologian John Piper has pushed back on the idea that Christians enter a state of unconscious “soul sleep” after death and stressed that instead, believers go immediately into the presence ...

Six weeks ago, on Ash Wednesday, we received ashes as a sign of our mortality. Tomorrow evening, as the Church begins the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper, Lent 2022 ends. That Mass marks the ...

Elí, Elí, lemá sabachtháni? Or, in English, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” This lament of Jesus (Matthew 27:35-44) as he faces death is a quotation from one of King David’s psalms, Psalm ...

A family prays next to a relative’s grave in a cemetery during All Souls’ Day in Khartoum, Sudan, in this Nov. 11, 2014. (Credit: Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters via CNS.) Listen As Catholic ...

Like a burial garment, life and death are interwoven. The year I was married, I read Rosenzweig’s reflections on the meaning of Yom Kippur—a mere two weeks before my wedding—and was struck in an ...

The public is invited to attend the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ annual observance to commemorate the death of Jesus Christ. “We warmly invite the public locally and worldwide to join us to commemorate Christ ...

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This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. Christ died because he would die; other men admitted to the dignity of martyrdom are willing to die, but they die by the ...