In choosing Jesus we also choose the cross and there is real death, and the pain involved here cannot be softened or ...

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And those four Apostles (actually, three — Peter, James and John — though Andrew will often be a close fourth for having introduced Peter to Jesus, per John 1:40-41) become an almost “inner ...

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In the Gospel narratives, a gaggle of soldiers came to arrest Jesus before his crucifixion. Trying to stop them, the apostle Peter brandished a sword to defend Jesus from danger but missed his ...

T he 12 apostles of Jesus were ordinary men who were like us in many ways. After the death of Christ, these men were like sheep without a shepherd. They were persecuted and thrown into prisons for ...

Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles Acts 12:1-11 ; 2 Tm 4:6-8, 17-18 ; Mt 16:13-19 Jesus is the mystery that embodied the presence of God in the world.

Peter, at the beginning of Mark’s Gospel—then named Simon—is the first to be called to follow Jesus, along with his brother Andrew. Then, in Matthew’s Gospel it is Peter who acknowledges ...

National Catholic Register, Jun 29, 2024 / 04:00 am. St. Peter was a fisherman. Fishing nets and tilapia were his daily reality. Born without distinction in a backwater of the Roman Empire, he ...