I’m sitting at my desk looking at Procter and Frere’s A New History of the Book of Common Prayer, and thinking of our ...

Roman Catholicism has seven sacraments it recognizes and define as "outward signs of inward grace". One of those sacraments is Reconciliation, or Penance. It's where a member of the faith confesses ...

it can often be incredibly inward. Grace’s total alienation from motherhood, on the other hand, is flamboyantly outward. As a filmmaker, Ramsay is a mood poet who favors violence and needle ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up The 47th president has upended business as usual, in ...

The priest will make a small cross on their foreheads by smudging the ashes- an outward sign of inward grace. While the ashes remind us of our mortality and sin, the cross reminds us of Jesus ...

Like marriage itself, that urn with those comingled ashes is an outward sign of inward grace, something sacramental. It represents a promise two people made with all their hearts to participate as ...

These obligations encompass both inward and outward actions. The inward obligations of Tawheed ... Many verses and hadiths indicate that adherence through actions is a sign of love for Allah. For ...

As outward signs of inward grace, tools, such as the Bible, direct us towards greater understandings of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Various sacraments which inhabit our religious environment ...

Ron Austin is a veteran TV writer and astute cultural philosopher and has been the Yoda of a new generation of serious Catholics in Hollywood for more than two decades. Ron used to tell us, “It ...

The night before he died, our Lord established the Eucharist as the primordial sacrament, an “outward sign of inward grace.” Christ comes to nourish our souls, but he does so through the ...

Gibert's bizarre and zany mixture of the seven sacraments, particle physics and honey-dip doughnuts will appeal to anyone who can find an inward and invisible grace, the tragicomedy, in America today.