Stories where good ... the Cross. That’s one of the deepest takeaways in Colin Smith’s "Heaven, How I Got Here." The Cross wasn’t a glitch in the plan. It was the plan. And the thief ...

The Saturday between Good Friday and Easter Sunday ... After descending to Hades, Jesus ascended. On the cross, He assured the thief in Luke 23:42-43 that he would be with him in paradise.

No. It tells the story of the last person Jesus ever spoke to before He died. The thief on the cross. We know him. We’ve heard his voice echo across the centuries from Luke’s Gospel ...

The thief on the cross next to Jesus waited in suffering for the promise of paradise. So do many of us. When readers thumb through their Bibles for examples of courage, few consider flipping to ...

The second word from the cross, the second time Jesus speaks from the cross, he promises paradise to the Good Thief, the one we call St. Dismas. It is astonishing to consider that, on that first ...

We should sit with the suffering and the abandonment of the cross ... that Good Friday is not the end of the story. We know that in reaching out his hands to be nailed to the tree, Jesus was ...

Catholic faithful in Kensington marked Good Friday on April 18 with a “Stations of the Cross” procession, symbolizing Jesus’ journey as he carried the cross before his crucifixion and resurrection on ...

This Via Crucis was celebrated by Pope John Paul II on Good Friday in 1991 ... So they took Jesus, and carrying the cross himself he went out to what is called the Place of the Skull, in Hebrew ...

Luke includes an appearance of Jesus before Herod and two separate incidents with Pilate. Only Luke recounts Jesus’ words to the penitent thief ... on the way to the cross.

Judas Iscariot betrays Jesus to his enemies during a reenactment of the Way of the Cross at Dinajpur Cathedral on Good Friday ... fulfill our moral duties." A thief is crucified in front of ...