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St. Andrew, also known as Andrew the Apostle, was a Christian Apostle and the older brother to St. Peter. According to the New Testament, Andrew was born in the village of Bethsaida on the Sea of Galilee during the early first century. Much like his younger brother, Simon Peter, Andrew was also a fisherman. Andrew’s…
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Credo vitam aeternam. We say it at Mass, Baptisms, marriages, and in daily prayer. Yet if someone were to ask you right now—“Do you believe you will live forever?”—how would you respond? If you truly believe what you profess, you should answer with an unambivalent “Yes!” But for the “hmm…not sure” within us, we thankfully…
Though it is a clear break between liturgical years and liturgical seasons as one crosses from the Feast of Christ the King to the beginning of Advent, I propose that a strong continuity between the two events can be found in the Catholic Old Testament, in 1 and 2 Maccabees. I describe these two books…
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Reading 1 RV 20:1-4, 11—21:2 I, John, saw an angel come down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the abyss and a heavy chain. He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, which is the Devil or Satan, and tied it up for a thousand years and threw it into the abyss, which…
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